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 which scholar Mel Chen calls as Queer Toxicities. The
anonymous skin of a land speculates 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.
