The latest instalment of Daniel Arsham’s Future Relic series—based on the prospective excavation of ‘obsolete’ objects from the present—continues the New York-based artist’s inquiry into the fate of humanity. Here Arsham, who is the founder of art and architecture practice Snarkitecture, explains how the Future Relic project came to be, and why he chose to create a trailer for an imaginary film which distils the concepts of the series as a whole:

"Future Relic began as an experiment and a way to think about how I would make films related to my art practice. I have been making works for many years that replicate objects from our present as if they were uncovered on some future archeological site. These objects create breaks in time and they expand and collapse it by bringing us outside of our current moment.

“I'm always thinking about the future, and decided to create a trailer for this film that would encapsulate the total idea of it. The trailer itself is a kind of artwork collapsing time again, in that it's a trailer for a film that will be released in 71 years."