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D: D-D-D exhibition
D: D-D-D exhibition

〈D: D-D-D〉
Fine Dust Sensing Art Practice

2022 Exhibition Collaboration with Mina Kim Monitors, reference literature, Fine Dust Sensing Specimen, D: D-D-D website, speaker modules, variable dimensions
  • Fine Dust
  • Exhibition
  • D: D-D-D
Completed

The exhibition brought D: D-D-D's different ways of sensing fine dust together in one room. Until then, these methods had existed apart from each other, and the exhibition gathered them as methods rather than summarizing them as finished work.

A video documenting the D: D-D-D activism performance played on one wall, showing the guerrilla sensing carried out at official monitoring stations. Beside it stood Fine Dust Sensing Specimen, which collects matter that is normally inhaled and dispersed before anyone can look at it and holds it still enough to be seen. A nearby screen ran a website mapping the locations of all 614 official monitoring stations. Visitors could navigate it themselves, so the administrative grid that measures air quality became something a body could trace with a finger. Around these works, the literature and documents gathered during the research, from environmental science papers to field notes, were laid out for visitors to read instead of being tucked into a corner as supporting evidence.

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Placed in one space, these different registers — action, specimen, infrastructure, and text — stopped functioning as separate outputs and started to read as one continuous practice of sensing rather than measuring. A visitor could watch the performance, look at the specimen, search their own neighborhood's monitoring station, and read the research connecting all of it, in almost any order, building their own path through materials the project had been accumulating. The exhibition did not conclude the research; it made the accumulation itself visible, and left it open to keep growing.

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