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ALASTAIR LAAS


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      Exhibition view: Show One, Lethaby Gallery, King’s Cross, London.





      Exhibition view: Show One, Lethaby Gallery, King’s Cross, London.





      Performance with Parisian artist Cuco at (H)AKT, Ugly Duck, Bermondsey, London.


      Ciracade (2018)

      Mild steel, LED strip, Medium Density Fibre Board, perspex, injection moulded polyurethane, 3x Arduino Uno boards, servos, black ink, Chinese Wolf hair brushes

      130 x 130 x 26cm.

      *Recipient of David Ward International Award for Innovation and shortlisted for Aesthetica Art Prize             Ciracade is an analogous structure formed allegorically, preserving the principles of a self-contained organisation that governs light and mobility, providing a schema for the automation and commodification of emotion.

      Mirroring Bourriaud's concerns, written in 'The Exform', that the 'proletariat' may be becoming dissociated. Here, Ciracade attempts to form a microcosm of industry, exhibiting a mechanised interpretation of Schadenfreude ('malicious joy' at the expense of another), in lieu of an under-class driven labour system purposed exclusively for capital gain. 

      The peripheral light ring is automated by a smartphone app, changing to affect the internal-body clock of viewing parties. This unspoken procedural system invites discourse around appointed capitalist frameworks whose purpose is to maintain enterprise at any cost.