15 July ~ 24 September, 2006
John Duncan and Valerio Tricoli. Audio installation with six elements based on voice and onsite field recordings, mounted inside two buildings of the IPCA Ecomuseum complex in Ciriè, Province of Turin.
Included in Eco e Narcisso, sponsored by the Province of Turin.
Curated by Daniela Cascella and Rebecca de Marchi.
The GARDEN HD documentary video by John Duncan with soundtrack by Duncan and Tricoli.
IPCA (Industria Piemontese dei Colorante di Anilina), originally a producer of aniline dyes, operating from the 1920’s to the 1980’s. Haunted by a cynicism difficult even to imagine…
Hydrochloric acid is constant inside Building 18.
All metal corroding.
Workers told to enter in pairs with no protection.
When one passes out, his partner drags him outside and returns to the job.
Workers never told what they’re dealing with.
Bicycle tires leave rotting rubber on the road.
Surviving family members say over 800 employees died.
Toxic waste from the plant hauled away by tanker trucks with “milk” painted on the side.
Dumped in the river nearby.
Kilometers downstream, rocks a meter below ground stained blue, green, pink.
Tankers sequestered as evidence.
The company begins to fail.
To save it an immense incinerator is built to burn toxic waste.
Smoke released directly into the atmosphere.
— John Duncan
