CONVERSATION PIECE l STOCKHOLM
Excerpt from installation film Kino, 2014
Conversation Piece, a collaborative practice initiated in 2011 by Beatrice Brovia and Nicolas Cheng, can be intended as a hands-on study on interconnectedness and interdependency. An ongoing reflection on 'making-with' through conversation, misunderstanding and friction, the practice considers the enfolding boundaries that connect materials, bodies, and technologies in the complex timescapes of environmental change.
Gold Rush (2016 - 18)
Keywords: gold, extraction, e-waste, conflict minerals, human-nature
Gold Rush looks at domestic and industrial electronic waste, as source from where to mine gold as well as other materials. Our desire for and power of consumption of always newer, more updated electronic goods, combined with the producers’ own interests in pumping out consumer electronics with an embedded expiry date, result in huge amounts of waste from the over-production and over-consumption of electronics. Gold together with other minerals, is at the base of their functionality, it is diluted into what we consume and interact with carelessly, hidden into the secret workings and mechanisms of our appliances and daily interactions with them. By extracting electronic waste for gold and other precious metals, and rendering these visible on the body through jewellery pieces meant to adorn, the intention is to discuss gold of our time, its cultural meaning and power.
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