Shaped by Dust

The space of a cleanroom is engineered to remain as sanitized as possible. The manufacture of microchips relies on these actively cleansed conditions, where the presence of dust becomes antagonized to ensure optimal commercial production through maximum isolation and control. After four months of conducting embodied research working in these cleanrooms, Beatrice Maione reinscribes the perspective of dust within these environments. In an interactive installation, participants shift into investigators of the nature and experience of dust as a constant entropic entity reigning outside a cleanroom. Prompted by an audio protocol, Shaped by Dust presents the particles as a silent record of human actions and decisions.