MUSEUM OF RECYCLED CASSETTE MACHINES
KA YING CHARLOTTE CHUNG
MUSEUM OF RECYCLED CASSETTE MACHINES
KA YING CHARLOTTE CHUNG
Through a personal and specialised practice of recycling (collect-clean-fix-modify-repurpose), Charlotte searches for a new kind of relationship with the audio cassette technology, precisely, the physical machines – different from the default and mono user-tool relationship derived from human desires thus assigned by humans, which, she believes, eventually led to obsolescence in such technology (or any other media tech deemed “obsolete”).
She creates MRCM with the prospective of influencing to re-think such human-technology relationship with objects appearing or being advertised as nostalgic in this always-forwarding high-tech age.
The museum is an entity composed of a portable cassette machine collection formalised in 2020 (an informal collection hobby started in 2018 for audio cassette machines), and documents (Machine Profiles, Letters) that testifies Charlotte’s relationship development with the machines.
An online archive is accessible via Charlotte’s personal website. In the physical exhibition of MRCM, Charlotte performs maintenance procedures (i.e. clean-fix-repurpose from the recycling practice) for the machines in display.
