Liam Young

Liam Young
The Great Endeavor
2023
Video, 9:23 minutes
Liam Young with VFX Supervisor Alexey Marfin, Los Angeles

Current climate targets cannot be reached by slashing future emissions alone. The capacity to remove existing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it underground at gigatonne scales must be developed. The ‘great endeavour’ to capture all this carbon will involve the construction of the largest engineering project in human history, and the development of a new infrastructure equivalent in size to that of the entire global fossil fuel industry. The Great Endeavor approaches this challenge with a radical optimism that captures the design, construction, and drama of what it might look like to build this imaginary infrastructure.