M A C H I N A is an installation that examines the dialectic between the phenomenological state of the natural world and our perception of permanence as the scaffold of power. It’s a snapshot of my investigations into the politics of the designed world through a post-humanistic lens. The work acts as a prism, fracturing the certainty of modernity, mapping temporal transformations of material.
Since the Enlightenment, when Descartes wrenched the head from the burden of the physical body, the (white/male) human has been positioned at the center of power. This era of inflated hubris was an inflection point that has defined our world to this day. We have since cataloged the world, plundered its resources, capitalized labor, deemed others as less-than-human, all in the pursuit of permanence and power. Through the physicality of sound, the work attempts to rejoin the head and the body through a felt experience, offering an opportunity to be hyper-present in a sublime instance of chaos and harmony.
