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Lance of Plausible Deniability, installation view at NARS Foundation, New York, NY, US, Sep 2024
Lance of Plausible Deniability, 3D scanned installation view, 2024
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Lance of Plausible Deniability
2024
2024
Interactive sculpture.
Installation view at NARS Foundation, New York, NY, US, Sep 2024. Silver, carousel projector slider, stainless steel, roulette, ceramics, hole, steel marble, gravity, light, electronic components, etc. Dimensions variable (No.AD33-1638 of the series: 42 x 12 x 12 inches approx.)
An intent, an action, a material-semiotic speech act flash frozen into a diegetic instrument insinuating a parliament of unnamed purposes ←↑→͍ ⌍⌏↜↝↞↟↠ contending with a set of contradictions observed in the teleoplex system at large that the work is also part of while aknowledging-enacting the facet that it is problematising as a result of a cocktail mixture of complicity, inevitability, and survival instincts, all of which get covertly transcribed into plausible deniability in action.
Both works made during the residency employ a metafictional perspective. "Lance of Plausible Deniability" and "Aegis (Eternity MMA Ring) JH37(29)F-TR:0185" engage with latent kinetic energy and hyperstitional machinations of cultural regurgitation through the lens of objecthood, temporal tension, diagrammatics and transmedia.
“Lance of Plausible Deniability" is a time-based sculptural piece embodying the tension between stasis and violence. The lance, as a weapon, is the material artefact of the intrumentalisation of potential force. It is an intent, an action, a material-semiotic speech act flash frozen into a diegetic instrument insinuating a parliament of unnamed purposes ←↑→͍⌍⌏↜↝↞↟↠. Flirting with the tropes of fictitious instruments of violence, play, casino contraptions, and the interplay of eros and thanatos, it is constructed based on the nondual symbolism of a carrier-spear (in reference to Ursula Le Guin’s thoughts on technology, tool and worlding in The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction). The work contends with a set of contradictions observed in the teleoplex system at large that the work is also part of while aknowledging-enacting the facet that it is problematising as a result of a cocktail mixture of complicity, inevitability, and survival instincts, all of which get covertly transcribed into plausible deniability in action.
Lance of Plausible Deniability & Aegis (Eternity MMA Ring) JH37(29)F-TR:0185, installation view at NARS Foundation, New York, NY, US, Sep 2024
Aegis (Eternity MMA Ring) JH37(29)F-TR:0185, 3D scanned installation view at NARS Foundation, New York, NY, US, Sep 2024
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Aegis (Eternity MMA Ring) JH37(29)F-TR:0185
2023-2024
2023-2024
Interactive sculpture-print.
Inkjet prints, embedded giant poker index playing cards. Dimensions variable (No.AD33-1810 of the series: 5 x 7 inches each, double-sided).
High-bitrate material-semiotics via meta-stories® expounding on referencism* (ditto) through egregore engineering the syntactical strata.
In "Aegis (Eternity MMA Ring) JH37(29)F-TR:0185”, the "Aegis" in the title refers to the goatskin shield materialising the attribute of Zeus and Athene in classical mythology, suggesting the balance between aggression and defense, between kinetic release and potential energy through its surface tension. It is composed of High-bitrate material-semiotics via meta-stories® expounding on referencism* (ditto) through egregore engineering the syntactical strata. The work is made of an analog anthology of (un)ironic meta-schizoposting IG stories made from 2022 up to the recent months, referring to instances of content regurgitation and copyright infringement against my works and the works of people in the creative scene (sometimes by the scene itself). These transient digital artefacts were laminated on the surfaces of giant playing cards selected by a literal sleight of hand, melded in the materiality of the anadig surface and interfaces almost towards a point of fetishisation in the mind of a collector/hoarder/poster. When ironically and transtextually exported into the contexts of a mixed martial arts (MMA) ring through the suggestion of its title, the allegorical ring of the cyber-realm itself becomes a charged space of latent energy; the work reflects on how individuals, systems, and thought-forms (egregores) are constantly engaged in a baccarat of kinetic and latent energy, where forces remain in tension and the constant shuffling of an open ended participatory narrative, waiting for catalysis.
In both pieces, the concepts of cyclically reenacted discursive constructs and latent kinetic energy become metaphors for the unseen forces that shape human behaviour and social systems. It highlights the precariousness of these energies, the way they are harnessed, suppressed, or unleashed, and how they define the the fabric of cultural realities and power dynamics of both individuals and institutions.
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