Crashed : Nanobots 
撞毀：納米機器人

CW: Flashing, Viscera
Running Time: 6mins44s
Produced, designed, performed and edited independently. Shot with Canon 60D, Dragon Touch action cameras, TOMZON Drones,  Sony DV. Locations sponsored by Shiplake Greenhouse, Notting Hill Fish & Meat, Alexander and Ainsworth Estate. Drones operated by Sorin Baluta, Matthew Fletcher, Uchercie Tang and Finian Clarke. The soundtrack is Anti Body (slowed and reverb by Eel) 2021, approved by Gazelle Twin.

Crashed: Nanobots is a science fiction conjecturing a bodily landscape recolonised by invasive surveillance. In transhumanist and popular visions, nanotechnology will offer immense prospects in human longevity research and biomedicine. Nanorobotics are marketed as robots microscopic in size, working in swarms to recuperate and annihilate diseased and ageing cells considered unwanted in the existing economy of the aesthetic and healthcare industry. They are promoted as microscopic inner surveillance, keeping undesirable cells at bay while working in non-invasive, noise-free, harmonious manners. Once nanorobotics achieves commercial scalability, the dualist construction of skin as the separating barrier (between internal and external, self and other) will be defunct; skin instead shifts into a contingent site of exchange and permeability. Micro-scaled robotic recolonisation economically assists the narrative of seamless body enhancement, progress, and health, while the existing reality of medical surveillance elicits more difficult, even painful procedures. Diseases and unwanted body parts are encountered and surveilled with cold, hard appliances that often eviscerate, probe and incise amidst auditory commotion, inducing substantial procedural anxiety among the population.

Instead of rehashing the tautology of harmonic body recolonisation by generative medicine to satiate human exceptionalism's fixation on becoming better, healthier, and more long-lived, I imagine the freakish acceptance of "invasive body recolonisation" — breaching boundaries with pain, difficulty, and noise, with the metaphoric use of drone surveillance running amok. Through anxious collisions, incessant noise, and disruptive surveillance, Crashed: Nanobots asks: What is the fictive potential of problematic body recolonisation? How does it disobey and destabilise the biopolitical status quo?