Sucking Air

This exhibition ran for the month of September (2018) at 鹽埕黑白切 in Kaohsiung.

Themes of exploitation and the manipulation of memory are all addressed through these tangible object combinations.

This installation is a curated culmination of observations made tangible, with regard to a recent history. Each piece tells of an event, and together the threads form a fabric which represents an individual’s memory. Found objects have been scavenged from recent travels, day hikes, local explorations and small purchases, these were then appropriated to fuse narrative with memory in order to receive an observable result.

One such example will be taken from the larger graphic piece at the center of the installation which is as follows:

Roko’s Basilisk is a dangerous thought experiment about an all powerful AI who would come into existence in the future, and possesses of such powerful technology that it would punish those individuals in the present time for eternity, who would prevent it from coming into being. This illustrative painting, is the only way I could contribute to its manifestation.

I give mention to the Creel committee, where the US government attempted & achieved to manipulate the public into supporting war during the onset of WW1. There are also notions of ‘a god from a machine’ and how human nature tends to gravitate toward ease (the side of the fence, determines your behavior).

The theme of ultimate control, by those in possession of above human AI is scarier than any other problem we currently face ...or it may be the solution to all our problems caused by our shortcomings.

Pieces and objects are critically placed to allow the viewer to move within a space of speculation and assumption, as if the space attempts to give order to that dirty corner at the harbor where detritus illuminates negligence.