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100-Day Performance Art Piece: Dust
Vacuumed From Beijing Air Made Into a Brick
On
November 29, 2015, a man from
Shenzhen,
Guangdong
Province, completed the first part of his Dust Plan
by using a industrial vacuum cleaner collecting poullulated
air in Beijing. The day after, he brought the
vacuum-collected dust from air in
Beijing
during the past 100 days to a brick-making factory at
Tangshan, Hebei
Province , and made a brick (picture attached at the
bottom).
The
artist (known as "Nut Brother") told journalists that his
idea of Dust Plan came to him in 2013 when there
was much media coverage of Beijing's serious air pollution.
The air quality index of Beijing is PM2.5, which is an
extremely hazardous level. Such reports shocked him.
In order to complete his
Dust Plan, he walked around Beijing using a 100w,
airflow volume 234 cubic meters/per hour, filtering
precision 0.2 micrometer industrial vacuum cleaner to
collect and filter the air for 100 days. The results are
shocking and show how pressing the matter of poor air
quality has become.
The Dust Plan states
that our cities are becoming places full of traffic, harmful
chemicals, and big construction sites. As human beings, we
create more and more of this dust as we take away from
natural resources in our pursuit for expansion. Some day in
the future when we have exhausted all natural resources, we
- human beings- will become dust.
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