For the duration of August Collectives (2019), BLOAT transformed APT Gallery, Deptford, into their production site 'FLOAT.'

FLOAT embodied a multifunctional purpose, as its almost utopian aspirations of using solely plastic waste material, repurposed to make functioning floatation devices. The plan for these devices, like buoys, would mark water as beacons for collectivity, environmental issues, and the potential for new material. 

The site became a window into the inner workings of BLOAT manufacture and a visceral recipe of BLOAT fabrication intended for public participation. BLOAT's transformation into a utilitarian body for experimentation and prototypes contradicted its role as a performative or sculptural artwork.

The exhibition brought together a borrowed and found mass of resources that included general and industrial waste plastic, from giant water containers to store bags, tool units, construction materials, ladders and lifts, uniforms, do-it-yourself manufacturing zones, embossing stations, scattered research and communicative pages, borrowed screens and projectors displaying BLOAT communications, research and previous experiments, various light fixtures, water pools, delivery leftover packaging, leftover notes and to do lists.

All resourced equipment went back to the gallery space and owners, found material went to recycling or were repurposed by BLOAT and the public (the giant water containers were delivered to community gardens and sheets of adhered patchwork multi plastic were reused by a restaurant for packaging goods).