All Is Not Lost (Except to the Sun) is a distributed, site-specific intervention featuring everyday “found objects” placed in public and transitional spaces across Mesa, Arizona and the Arizona State University campus. Locations include trailheads, stairwells, benches, sidewalks, and other in-between zones where human attention flickers and reorients. The objects themselves—dropped wallets, single gloves, turned-inside-out mittens, weathered paperbacks, misplaced e-readers, key cards lacking institutional markings, scratched sunglasses, abandoned smartphones, and dented water bottles. These items are easily mistaken for lost or forgotten belongings. In this installation, each item is what the KDZU collective calls a “tactical artifact”: a constructed object embedded with narrative fragments and encoded transmissions from the world of the KDZU pirate radio station and its predecessor, OMSA (Of Memory, Silence, and Artifacts).

KDZU is a long-form experimental research project that explores how myth can be used tactically to intervene in the human experience and our systems of meaning, particularly those authored and enforced by technologist-hypercapitalist infrastructures. The KDZU project blends autofictional histories, DIY/DIT collectivities, robotics, and space exploration, framed through the speculative infrastructure of an imaginary pirate radio station on the run with the call letters KDZU. OMSA (Once Many Sometimes Always) was an underground anarcho-collectivist engineering and art group based in Memphis, Tennessee, which squatted the Memphis Pyramid and was later raided and disbanded in 1994.