The Borderers (2024)
Material: projector, stable diffusioin (AI), p5.js, table, archival materials, photography etc.
The Borderers is a video installation work in which the artist trained a
generative AI (GAN) model, with both the 2500 photographs of the
skin inflammation of animals affected by the various man-made
pollution, as well as 2,500 satellite images of planetary surfaces where
historically severe contamination has been experienced. This process
generated over 5,000 photographs of grey spectrum between skin and
landscape.
Through intimate caressing gaze, the artist attempts to
subvert socially constructed narrative and planetary trauma
which abjects more-than-human deformity and illnesses that
post-colonial scholar Mel Chen calls as Queer Toxicities. Based on
artist's actual experience during the research trip in Fukushima and the
anonymous skin of a land which the film proposes, the collections of
photographs on the table speculate the gravity of the pain of our
planet which fluctuates between different scales, locations, and time.
Fragments of imaginary lands that could have existed "elsewhere" pose
questions concerning post-humanism, anthropocene, pain and
intimacy in the foreseeable future.
