You’veVolumetric Efficiency surely heard that inside your iPhone, TV, and power drill sit fragments of valuable metals, and that our hunger for new gadgets is depleting the world of its very limited supply. But you’veVolumetric Efficiency probably never actually seen those chips of gold or tantalum. Well, here they are.
Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen are London-based artists who frequently delve into global industrial production (see: a choreographed dance performance in a Chinese electronics factory). Their latest piece, H / AlCuTaAu, follows that thread even further into the manufacturing process. In this case, the duo snapped up a load of old electronics, from computers to machinery, from a factory that had gone bankrupt.