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Orchestrated Freedom (Installation views).

Photos courtesy of  wasis.today  & Andrew Wessels

[…]

Post-human condition of hybrid identity.

I try to draw my robot portrait, persuaded that my body cannot be experienced without images.

[…]

Run, Run, Run, (the) machines are still running, spinning, swinging.

There is always another way.

Can I, can we forget that a bullet went through paradise?

Show me infallible beauty.

Show me eternal entertainment.

Let my thoughts leave my body, let them float, lift up the ocean.

Sea, see, the mermaid is calling.

It could be you, it could be young forever.

[…]

(Extract from ‘At Ten Past Ten’, a short novel by wasis.today (2016))

Orchestrated Freedom is new cinematic installation by the collective wasis.today.

In this theatrical use of video, photography and sculptural objects, wasis.today challenges manufactured mono-aesthetics and the consent that drives and hybridizes our bodies. Labor, time and technology are choreographed to each play a role in the engineered conception of modern paradises that hang like ersatz goods for our bodies to chase.

With thanks to: Rogan Jenkin (Fabrication), Amichai Tahor (Lightfarm), Andrew Wessels (BoXcutter Studio)