HANQI LI
BIO&CV
嗅，有毒的贵屿
Sensing the Toxic Guiyu
Sensing the Toxic Guiyu exhibited on the London College of Communication (2023)
Sensing the toxic Guiyu(2023) is an olfactory installation that combined with speculative films to simulate the toxic area of China’s biggest e-waste town. The stability of heavy metals suggests they will persist beyond the anthropocene, and when dismantling, burning, and degrading into simpler metallic elements and chemical forms, they became invisible and would diffuse into the wider environment, even the biological chain and beyond, having a deep time scale’s influences. However, the smell of e-waste could become the invisible element to connect human’s body and the dead media, which aimed to question about how Guiyu as a shaded place on the otherside of world could be experienced? What kinds of uncertained future it would have?
《感应有毒的贵屿》(2023)是一个嗅觉装置，结合思辨电影来模拟中国最大的电子垃圾城镇的有毒区域。重金属的稳定性表明，它们将在人类世之后继续存在，当它们被分解、燃烧和降解为更简单的金属元素和化学形式时，它们变得不可见，并会扩散到更广泛的环境中，甚至是生物链和其他地方，产生深远的时间尺度影响。然而，电子垃圾的气味可能成为连接人类身体和死亡媒体的无形元素，这旨在质疑贵屿作为世界另一端的阴影之地可以如何被从未身临那块地方的人们体验?这个有毒小镇会有怎样的不确定的未来?
A Screenshot of the speculative film.
The worker was assambling e-waste boards in Guiyu Economic Industrial Park.
A Screenshot of the speculative film.
The process of acid leaching that called ‘suanxi’.
The process of acid leaching that called ‘suanxi’.
The E-waste trash in Guiyu.
Documentray of the Field-Research in Guiyu (August 2023)