新时线媒体艺术中心（CAC）荣幸呈现2023年全新项目板块CAC项目空间第一期“尘间涌流”，展出艺术家龙盼系列作品。
展览中的两件作品《千叶集》与《花火》源自龙盼于2021年前往广东省贵屿镇的田野调查。作为世界最大的电子垃圾处理地之一，贵屿镇是过去二十年间高速发展的行星尺度计算景象背后关键的一部分。龙盼通过寻找该区域内金属沉积的痕迹，开启了一项艺术性的实验。
《花火》呈现了铜这一遍布全球物质经济的贱金属，在经历了提炼、液化后，以中国传统打铁花的方式再次回到土地的绚烂时刻。在迸出的火星间，展览亦展开了龙盼朝着另一个向度炼金的过程。艺术家关注到卫星图上空白区域内生长着的重金属富集的植物，来自世界各地的废弃电子产品中的重金属渗透并沉积其中。在《千叶集》中，植物根系被从土地中拔出，经过冶炼的金属被转化为叶状瓷片表面的釉，在显微镜下，金属最终显现出肉眼可见的闪烁尘埃。
《花火》与《千叶集》中的金属伴随着有机物的脉动，流转于技术物、土地与植物之间，揭示出生命与非生命之间互渗的涌流，以及背后的当代炼金魔法——化学与资本主义下地理分散化的后勤基建。跨越了星球上不同系统与尺度的社会性、政治性与概念层面的激荡也在摄像镜头与显微镜下显现。
Chronus Art Center (CAC) is pleased to present Flux in Dust, the first iteration of CAC’s 2023 new program CAC Projects in collaboration with the artist LONG Pan.
Leaf and Fire Works are derived from a research trip conducted by the artist in Guiyu, Guangdong in 2021. As one of the largest e-waste dumps of the world, the small town has played a crucial role behind the scenes of today’s fast-forwarding planetary computational capacity in the past two decades. By exploring the sedimentary traces of metals in the region, LONG Pan initiated an artistic experiment.
Fire Works presents a splendid moment of copper, a base metal dispersed in the global material economy. After undergoing extraction and liquefaction, it circulates back to the earth through a traditional Chinese ritual Datiehua (打铁花). Among the exploding sparks, the show also unveils the process of LONG Pan’s alchemy in the opposite direction. She was intrigued by plants rich in heavy metal accumulations that grow in an opaque blank area in satellite imagery. The heavy metals in discarded electronics from all over the world permeate and condense within them. In Leaf, plant roots are uprooted from the soil, and the extracted metals are transmuted into the glaze on the surface of leaf-shaped ceramic pieces. Under a microscope, the metals are eventually visualized as glittering dust.
Metals in Leaf and Fire Works circulating among the technological, the earth, and the plants alongside the pulsation of organic matters reveal the fluctuating permeation between life and nonlife as well as the contemporary magic of alchemy: chemistry and geographically dispersed logistic infrastructures. The complex social, political, and conceptual disturbances spanning various systems and scales on the planet also manifest through camera lenses and microscopes.
