Following the trail of an urban waste canal in Cambodia, we engage with the sensory impressions of discarded material imprints as entangled within the daily lives of the city’s inhabitants. The term “liquid midden,” introduced here, implies the smooth movement and flow of discarded materials in the canal, and is used to explore the entangled visual relationships between discarded supermarket packaging, the canal’s concoction of household chemicals, food scraps, and raw sewage in the combined drainage system of Phnom Penh. Video ethnography, sound recordings, and fieldnotes are used in this interdisciplinary study to convey the elusive sensory impressions of an open-channel sewage disposal system: as entangled in the life of the city as the supermarkets through which the materials have passed.

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The Liquid Midden: 柬埔寨 Boeng Trabaek 海峡城市废弃者的视频民族志

沿着柬埔寨城市垃圾运河的踪迹，我们接触到与城市居民日常生活纠缠在一起的废弃材料印记的感官印象。这里引入的“液体中间”一词，意味着废弃材料在运河中的平稳运动和流动，用于探索超市废弃包装、运河混合日用化学品、食物残渣和未经处理的污水之间纠缠不清的视觉关系。 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?在金边的联合排水系统中。在这项跨学科研究中使用了视频民族志、录音和实地记录，以传达明渠污水处理系统难以捉摸的感官印象：就像材料经过的超市一样，纠缠在城市生活中。