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H/AlCuTaAu is an installation work created by Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen in 2014. The work consists of two parts: a man-made rock and a group of electronics. The rock is made of aluminium, copper, gold, tantalum, and crushed whetstone, measuring 6 centimetres high, 7 centimetres wide, and 12 centimetres deep. The assorted electronics include various components, apparatuses, and tools. The dimensions of the installation vary depending on how different parts of the work are set up in the display space.

The man-made rock is about the size of what can be held by cupped hands. It is a mass formed with metals and whetstone chunks of different sizes and shapes. Among them, the copper, aluminium, and white whetstone chunks are relatively larger, approximately 1 to 3 inches wide. The copper chunks look like unpolished stones, and the aluminium chunks appear to be welded clumps of small aluminium pieces. The whetstones have a coarse surface and some of the facets are made by clean cuts. The gaps between these metals and whetstone chunks are filled with small cubes of gold and tantalum which are gold, silver, or black in colour. Each cube is about the size of a pinkie fingernail.

The electronic components, apparatuses, and tools are sorted and laid out or stacked neatly. The items include: LCD computer monitors, power supply devices, motherboards and CPU, hard drives, a tangle of various cables and wires, copper coils, computer shells, floppy disk drives, DVD/ CD drives, wired keyboards, black mice with cables, video cards, RAM disks, Northbridge chips with heatsink, label-making machine, receipt machine, battery charger, electric drill without drill bit, Dremel tool for cutting and polishing, Tyrolit white grinding wheels, outer shells and batteries of dismantled mobile phones with physical buttons, and silver trophies.

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