CAC Presents | Metal and an Urban Grain: Flux under Micro-scaled World View
Date:2023.7.30 (Sun)
Time:14:00-15:30
Guests:LONG Pan, Enza Migliore & Marcel Sagesser
Language:Mandarin, English
Venue:Chronus Art Center
2nd Floor, Building 11, No.50 Mo Gan Shan Rd, Shanghai
The appearance of non-human actors in artistic practices is no longer novel. Yet, while the entangled biosphere and technosphere keep transforming and revealing more locality, artists are intrigued to explore the vitality and agentiality across different temporal and spatial scales.The talk will invite two groups of artists to share their artistic practices, in which the enactments on the scale of micro connect us to the intangible and ubiquitous in the contemporary conditions of existence.During the talk, LONG Pan will introduce projects Fireworks and Leaf which are currently exhibited at CAC’s exhibition Flux in Dust. By shed light on the metal accumulated in soil and plant roots, the two projects present the circulation of metal from the technological to the earth and the plants alongside the pulsation of organic matters, unveiling the fluctuating permeation between life and nonlife as well as the contemporary magic of alchemy: chemistry and geographically dispersed logistic infrastructures. Meanwhile, Long will delve into the trajectory and consistent themes of her artistic practices in light of her current and past projects.Artists Enza Migliore & Marcel Sagesser will introduce their project A Grain Of (2023), produced in an urban context. Its underlying idea is to take a “grain” from a dense, contemporary urban space and translate it into a perceptible object that holds some of the material and sonic ecology of the city from which it stems embedded in it.
LONG Pan
LONG Pan is a social practice artist working in art, research, technology and community. She collaborates around issues of bioremediation and biopolitics using digital and biological material such as fungi, plants, pollutants, electronics, minerals, etc. She is interested in the human footprint in the environment, and the biological response to environmental change, especially in China’s struggle between ecological embarrassment and technological exuberance. She is also focus on making invisible changes in the environment visible through biotechnologies such as “phytometallurgy” and “fungal degradation”. Through interdisciplinary research, fieldwork, and visual art expression, she hopes to provide us with a fresh perspective to read the deeper and often overlooked relationship between human existence and the environment in contemporary industrial society. Exploring and presenting the ‘secret correspondence’ of the whole network of life in which human beings live. Her art mediums include but are not limited to bio-sculpture, ceramics, installation, video, photography, etc.
Enza Migliore
Enza Migliore is a designer and researcher in materials and product design, bio-innovation, and speculative design. She conducts materials exploration through interdisciplinary design-driven experimental practices. Her research tackles materiality through the lenses of ecological perspectives, seeking non-binary and post-anthropocentric ways of conceiving and designing materials, objects, and making processes. She has been working and exhibiting her projects in Italy, Japan, and China. Enza is an Assistant Professor at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), School of Design in Shenzhen, China, leading the Materialities Research Group, which investigates emerging material ecologies.
Marcel Zaes Sagesser
Marcel Zaes Sagesser, born in Bern, Switzerland, is an artist and researcher working in digital media, sound, and technologies. In his artistic practice and in his research, he is investigating the relationship between technologies, urban space, and humans – especially with a focus on sound and digital images. He has exhibited his artwork in galleries worldwide and has toured his multimedia and music performances across Europe, the U.S.A, Egypt, India, and Greater China. Marcel is currently an Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Technology at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), School of Design in Shenzhen, China. At SUSTech, he is co-leading a team of researchers in the “Sound Study Group” that investigates digital sound in its social and cultural contexts.https://marcelzaes.com