Our lives are based on a concession of volts; the numerics of bars, power, and connection are our confidants and security. Parables for Proxies calls popular ideas concerning post-humanistic futures a counterfeit. Instead of bodies adorning machinic qualities of strength and efficiency, they are becoming less posthuman and increasingly subhuman. We have segmented ourselves; contact is via zoom, transcribed through texts, and parsed through social media. The body has been reduced to parts, pieces, and clipped experiences. The works in Parables for Proxies use a desperate Frankenstenian practice to symbolize slowly putting bits of life back together again. This exhibition is about reestablishing the virtue of the physical body. Consisting of kinetic sculptures, multi-media installations and video/performance, Parables for Proxies acts as an alarum for societal reboot; where viewers are asked to recognize the deep need for humanistic responsibility and presence within a technological culture.
Technology Dislocates. It pops the pleasant seams and streamline fixtures of our existence and demands recalibration. Mutilated by tiny cameras, filters, and split screens, we have ironically become both posthuman and subhuman. My work is about reestablishing the virtue of the physical body. Consisting of kinetic sculptures, multi-media installations and video/performance, these pieces intentionally create physically instinctive gaps for viewers. From empty benches to installed reactionary sensors, machines appear to pathetically wait for humanity to return. I believe technology can be utilized to re-humanize by prompting an audience to begin asking not, “What is that thing doing?” but rather, “What am I doing that makes that thing do what it's doing?” This engagement is central to the work and acts as an alarum for societal reboot; where viewers are asked to recognize the deep need for humanistic responsibility and presence within a technological culture.
