Dancing with the Absence




Performence
Wood, fan, chairs
180.00x180.00x70.00 (Variable dimensions)
2023




Dancing with the absence "Improvements in machinery effect a substitution of labor, comparatively unskilled, for that which is more skilled."As a forsaken fan reclaims the stage, trembling with intensity, its blades absent, its sole means of protest becomes a dance on the stage. It's challenging to discern whether the fan's transformation into a machine was a result of relentless human physical exertion to perform repetitive tasks or whether a human has been replaced by a superior machine. Is the fan dancing due to the absence of blades and audience, or is it dancing because it is being overlooked by a massive system? What level of noise is required for a dance like that to avoid being disregarded?














Background
The streets of New York are often full of discarded furniture, and this is an electric fan picked up on the side of the road, discarded because it was missing a fan blade.








Absence





Process