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STRESS TESTS
I’m very interested in the way companies and institutions build machines that are meant to simulate the long term use of the consumer. I’ve seen a machine that opens and closes a drawer thousands of times a day, I’ve seen a baby crib shaker. There is something beautiful and poetic about these machines yet also dark. They are quite performative in their own right. I’ve made several of these machines with the intention to simulate the emotional stress that we as humans experience. In the DADA tradition they are absurd and appear pointless which is my way of coping with the impossible mission to protect ourselves from ourselves.
