P008 → commissioned work | Cavern of Saline Genesis
photo by artist
Sound work, commissioned by artist Jun Zhang
Assen Netherlands, 2024
This work relates the reproduction tactics with fertility folklore. The project explores decolonizing the body through investigation of local beliefs and folk medicine knowledge related to salt and fertility, as well as new technology of using salt caverns for energy storage.
Some governments use the population as an important means of economic development. They forcing the young generation to get married for offspring and is actively blocking LGBT movements. This is an act of colonizing the body. In this project, artist speculates on an alternative fertility system where reproduction is no longer solely reliant on human bodies to counter current policy.