Waste Circuits (2013)

Waste Circuits (2013)

Date: 
01.02.2014 15:30
Edition: 
2014
Format: 
Performance
Location: 
HKW
Café Stage

Echoing a method from e-waste dumps to extract valuable materials from electronic waste, circuit boards from obsolete mobile phones are melted down on a hot plate.

Echoing a method frequently used at e-waste dumps in West Africa and China to extract valuable materials from electronic waste, circuit boards from obsolete mobile phones are melted down on a hot plate. The circuits are connected to electrodes on the artist’s body with electricity wires. Electric currents are modulated by the circuit boards, and used to activate his muscles. As a result of the melting of the circuits, the contraction patterns of the muscles change and are eventually interrupted.

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