Current Alchemy

Julia Schostak and Pawel Szubert

2015

Today, electricity is considered a common good, often taken for granted and easily accessible. As a form of energy, its resources will remain limited and distance, also within our next habitat.

In this proposal electricity, a usually ephemeral phenomenon grows and crystallizes into a tangible artefact. A crystal, normally known as a product of arduous preparation, as status symbol and luxury good, here turns into a raw material for consumption.

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