16:12
2023
Location : Institut Français du Caire
Date – Time : 12/5/2024 7-9pm
Oriented in the four elements of fire, water, air, and earth, The Currency – Sensing #1 Agbogbloshie examines Agbogbloshie, the world’s largest e-waste recycling site. The film is part of a larger investigation that traces the global cycles of raw materials and electronic devices and their half-value, questioning capitalist logic, exploitation, and power structures to re-explore the relationships between humans and their interactions with the non-human world. This performative field research uses experimental sound generation methods to make electromagnetic waves of the electronic waste audible, thus enabling expanded sensory access to it that goes beyond the merely visible. It is also a form of urban mining, but instead of being based on the profit-oriented recovery of raw materials from urban space for a circular economy, it is a critical method for observing and reflecting on human practice.