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Liu Chuang’s video installation constructs a speculative journey through the history of technology, infrastructure, ecology and finance, intertwining this with anthropological knowledges and science fiction’s global imaginary. During his field trips, the artist observed that a large number of bitcoin mining sites are located inside abandoned hydroelectric plants in the rural terrains of Western China, an area also home to many minority groups. Contextualising questions of capital investment within histories of science and popular culture, the work makes lateral epistemological connections and reminds us that the deployment of cutting-edge technology is dependent on ecological and minority intelligences. Liu also explores how developments in infrastructure and capital have rendered these intelligences fragile, underlining the related destinies of the particular and the planetary.

Born 1978, Jingshan, China
Lives and works in Shanghai, China

Bitcoin Mining and Field Recordings of Ethnic Minorities, 2018
Three-channel video, colour, sound, 40'
Commissioned for 'Cosmopolis #1.5: Enlarged Intelligence' with the support of the Mao Jihong Arts Foundation

  • Cosmopolis - a platform for research-based and collaborative art practices.
  • Cosmopolis #2: rethinking the human. 23 October – 23 December 2019. Centre Pompidou
  • Cosmopolis est une plateforme qui met l’accent sur pratiques artistiques enracinées dans la recherche
  • Cosmopolis #2: rethinking the human. 23 octobre - 23 décembre 2019. Centre Pompidou
  • Cosmopolis is a platform for research-based and collaborative art practices.
  • Cosmopolis #2: rethinking the human. 23 October – 23 December 2019. Centre Pompidou
  • Cosmopolis est une plateforme qui met l’accent sur pratiques artistiques enracinées dans la recherche
  • Cosmopolis #2: rethinking the human. 23 octobre - 23 décembre 2019. Centre Pompidou