MUSE Silver

2025

Miss

Entrant Company

Central Academy of Fine Arts

Category

Experiential & Immersive - Public Art Installation

Client's Name

Qi Lin

Country / Region

China

Genealogy of Post-Anthropogenic Artifacts is a multimedia interactive project exploring the corrosion and reconstruction of human-made objects in natural environments. Framed within post-anthropocentrism and mediated memory theories, it treats artificial objects as active media of memory rather than terminal relics, examining the narrative potential of non-human agents.
The project unfolds along the dynamic boundary between nature and the artificial, focusing on objects gradually “re-wilded” through natural erosion. By situating these objects in a speculative future, they are endowed with autonomous restoration capabilities, transforming from passive carriers into agentive narrative subjects, allowing memory to be re-coded and translated from a non-human perspective.
The work consists of installations and experimental video components. The installation features alienated artificial relics alongside mechanical arms as non-human agents: relics embody intrinsic narratives, while mechanical arms mediate non-human storytelling into perceptible experiences, functioning as technical executors in memory generation.
In the video, the narrative divides into erosion and restoration. The erosion segment emphasizes the visible deposition of natural processes, creating a slow, non-dramatic yet tensioned perception of natural time. The restoration segment presents the objects being “reassembled” in a segmented structure, infusing silent artifacts with a sensory experience of regeneration.
Through model-making, real-time interaction, sound design, and video production, the project materializes the erosion and self-transformation of human-made objects. It is both an aesthetic experiment and a reconstruction of narrative media, proposing new ways to engage with memory and agency beyond the human perspective.

Credits

Qi Lin
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