Ciracade (2018) - Mild steel, LED strip, Medium Density Fibre Board, perspex, injection molded polyurethane, 3x Arduino Uno boards, servos, black ink, Chinese Wolf hair brushes, 130 x 130 x 26cm. *Winner of the David Ward International Award for Innovation and listed for the Aesthetica Art Prize. Exhibition view: HAKT (2018) Ugly Duck, Bermondsey, London.

Project: GLOBAL CITIZEN

Light Work In Heavy Industry

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 Nicholas 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.