2020
123x147x40 cm, HD, color, 4:34 min (video 1), 5:33 min (video 2) mirrored steel, screens, videos, digital prints, acrylic nails
Installation view Empathic Device, Gallery Tanja Wagner, Berlin, 2022
In Donna Haraway’s 1985 A Cyborg Manifesto she states ‘The cyborg is a condensed image of both imagination and material reality, the two joined centers structuring any possibility of historical transformation’. Nearly 30 years after her publication, this assemblage of the post-human subject is still intertwined in today’s power disparity. Moreover, its ‘multiglobal, intersubjective, institu- tional components’ are intentionally hidden (Hilary Bergen, 2016).
The production of technology bears histories of women and migrant labour. This system of labour exploitation signifies the irony of today’s society: the exploited bodies producing the new cyborg assemblage are the ones being rendered invisible in the final product, and ultimately these bodies are being automated away by machines.
Photos: Gallery Tanja Wagner