During the ArtLab we made a visit to the MGG recycling facilities in Amstetten. Here are some impressions from the field trip.
MGG Recycling from servus.at on Vimeo.
Field resaerch
Behind the Smart World Day 2 Field trip & Artist presentations
Field trip to MGG Recycling (Müller Guttenbrunn Group) center in Amstetten. Chris Slijkhuis, responsible for E-Waste & Public Affairs gave us a tour through the center, showed us their shredder and talked in a presentation about his experiences at Agbogbloshie.
After Lunch in the evening the artists presented themselves at the Kunstraum Goethestrasse xtd.
Visit at MGG-recycling
While this research lab focuses on the 22-hard-drives bought at the e-waste dump at Agbobloshi in Accra, Ghana. We were also curious how e-waste is manage here in central-Europe. Just 60km from Linz there is a recycling facility focusing on e-waste. We were welcomed to make a tour at the Müller-Guttenbrunn Group grounds to understand how electronics in Austria are treated. The contrast to Agbobloshi was big. Here huge machines processed big amounts of scrap rather than individuals with with rater primitive tools. Part of our tour was made by Chris Slijkhuis (E-Waste & Public Affairs), who also visited Agbobloshi in connection to the UN managed E-waste Academy.
Here is a company video from the Group:
And here some images from our visit:
Visit to Agbobloshi e-waste dump, Accra, Ghana.
In August 2014 we did an Artist in Residence Program in Accra, Ghana. Here some impressions from our visit to the Agbobloshi e-waste dump.