Sun Yuan Peng Yu, Can t help myself, 58th International Art Exhibition Venice, Italy 2019
Sun Yuan Peng Yu, Cant help myself, 58th International Art Exhibition, May You Live In Interesting Times, Biennale Arte 2019, August 31, 2019 The idea to use a robot came from the artists initial wish to test what could possibly replace an artists will in making a work and how could they do so with a machine. They modified a robotic arm, one often seen on production lines such as those in car manufacturing, by installing a customdesigned shovel to its front. Collaborating with two robotics engineers, Sun Yuan Peng Yu designed a series of thirtytwo movements for machine to perform. Their names for these movements, such as scratch an itch, bow and shake, and ass shake, reflect the artists intention to animate a machine. Observed from the cagelike acrylic partitions that isolate it in the gallery space, the machine seems to acquire consciousness and metamorphose into a lifeform that has been captured and confined in the space. At the same time, for viewers the potentially eerie s
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