HANQI LI
BIO&CV
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?
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)