Performance, Installation
1.6m*1.6m*1.8m
Acrylic, Latex
Human Input is a work that merges installation and performance art, and it humorously constructs a highly constrained, transparent, and mechanized "body container". By forcibly embedding a living organism into a video game controller, a quintessential symbol of contemporary interaction, it vividly illustrates the subjugation of subjectivity under technological dominance. Here, the oversized transparent joystick transforms from a gateway to virtual freedom into a physical cage, while the body confined within a latex sleeping bag is stripped of all individual identity, reduced to an abstract, restricted, and passive "organic input component" within the system.
This approach blurs traditional distinctions between human and machine, reframing the game interaction, originally symbolic of ease and pleasure, into a sign of oppression. It unveils the illusion of power in contemporary life: while we indulge in the fantasy of "controlling" the system, our bodies themselves are encoded and transformed as functional "objects" into the digital raw materials required by the system. The work moves beyond the pursuit of formal beauty in traditional "living sculpture", confronting instead the harsh truths of digital labor and biopolitics. It criticizes how individual freedom is devoured and reshaped by vast technological structures within a culture of relentless entertainment and gamified consumption.
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