Return homeWe sleep as our republics dissolve, our climate collapses, our humanity is bought and sold by global pirates on autopilot. We sleep as our bodies lay dying, preferring the limitlessness and safety of fantasies rather than the reality of the growing inferno. Our inability to acknowledge or agree on a collective logic has ensnared us into a new Dark Age, which will likely lead to our extinction, or worse, mass obsolescence to simulacra. The human figures in the robotic installation Corpo and the mechanisms that prop them up serve as a metaphor for our collective denialism.
Each figure in the installation is in a state of deep sleep as they work, ride the subway, watch tv, or lounge on arm chairs. Unpredictably, they are put into states of chaotic and violent inertia by the machines they are literally attached to. To ensure the figures stay blissfully sleeping, an artificial intelligence continuously fills the installation space with a soothing generatively made soundscape, which acts as a surrogate mother, humming an endless lullaby. By this the installation Corpo reflects our global culture of looking the other way, even when our existence is so obviously in peril.
Video of the project can be seen at the following link: Corpo Video Documentation
2023
Materials: PLA, wood, electronics, motors, metal - Dimensions: Variable