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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.
AL159: Sado (2020) - 1280 x 720px, 59min 37secs.
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A month before her death she emailed her father ‘I am too busy and stressed out and think about quitting my job at least once a day, but I guess I have to hang on.’
Instead Miwa Sado worked a total of 159 hours and 37 minutes of overtime in a month for a Japanese broadcaster – that’s an average of about 5.9 hours of overtime a day, including weekends. She died of congestive heart failure after ignoring the signs of ‘karoshi’ – a (death from overwork).
AL132: Shagpile - 1F4A9 (2018) – Synthetic polymer on Coconut Coir hair matt. 100 x 200 x 1.5cm.
AL167: Guernica - Museo del Prado (2019) - Photographic C-type print. 84.1 x 118.9 cm.
AL128.1/.2/.3: Slightly Smiling Face, Disappointed Face, Face Without Mouth - triptych (2018) – Polyethylene peg boards. 21 x 31 x 1 cm.
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Fear leads to flight, hate to rage and attack. Joy produces smiles and dancing or leaping about. Despair produces withdrawal and despondent demeanour. ...emotion is a critical component of biological intelligence, necessary for evaluating sensory input, selecting goals, directing behaviour, and controlling learning. This is not to suggest that intelligent machines can, or should, be endowed with emotions. However they must have the capacity to make value judgements. Without this capacity, machines can never be intelligent or autonomous. (Leondes, 1992: 243)
– Leondes, C.T. (1992) Manufacturing and Automation Systems: Techniques and Technologies, London: Academic Press Inc.
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Lack of recognition given by society toward authentic expression is represented in CondemNation. Using a child’s game to delineate and undermine absurdity contained within, further deflecting Satre’s famous statement on how man is condemned to his own freedom (Satre, 1946), into a satirised statement of expression.
AL123: OVERSP!LL (2018) – Perspex, Alcohol, Linen Thread. 18.5 x 12.5 x 4 cm. *Exhibition view, Overpr!nt (2018) La Louvière, Belgium
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You surely cannot forget that it is on the basis of that language with its slow genesis, and the obscure development that has brought it to its present state, that we can speak of other discourses in terms of structures; it is that language which has given us the possibility and the right to do so; it forms the blind spot on the basis of which things around us are arranged as we see them today. (Foucault, 1972: 220)
– Foucault, M. (2002) Archaeology of Knowledge, London: Routledge.