shanghai ccontent
Future Relics & Disassembly Line
Future Relics Series
focuses on our relationship with materialism, environmental sustainability and technology. Inspired by [the investigation of] pre-industrial hunter gatherer cultures and technology as a foil to [understanding] contemporary consumer behavior in our age of explosive innovation.
Artists and children from Shanghai demonstrate their imaginary landscape after the singularity.
Below we see the future boy choi, the future shell as form of hybrid between electronic waste and marine species, or the future Potato, created by an eight year boy from Shanghai. “I love Patato” says the boy, “In the future if everything has destroyed, I hope humans remember that once we had an amazing food.
It’s called Patato 土豆.”
Disassembly Line - Making Future Relics
The installation piece “Disassembly Line” prompts thoughtful reflection on human production and consumption through the hands-on deconstruction and transformation of e-waste into their own Future Relics series.
Audience not only witnesses the e-waste industry behind the recycling, but more importantly, participating directly in de-constructing and transforming of the collected waste.
The workshop bridges museum and various elementary schools in Pudong, during which parents and children team up to disassemble, draft, and build the scenery when singularity comes.
