2025
Performance, Installation
"Human Input" is a work that blends installation and performance art, humorously constructing a highly restricted, transparent, and mechanized "human container." By forcibly embedding a living organism into an electronic game controller—the most representative interactive symbol of our time—the work vividly portrays the subjugation of subjectivity under technological domination. Here, the massive transparent joystick transforms from a gateway to virtual freedom into a physical cage, while the human body confined within a latex sleeping bag is stripped of all individual characteristics, reduced to an abstract, restricted, and passive "organic input component" within the system.
This approach blurs the traditional boundaries between human and machine, reconfiguring the originally lighthearted and pleasurable game interaction into an oppressive symbol. It reveals the illusion of power in contemporary life: as we indulge in the delusion of "controlling" the system, the body itself, as a functional "object," is encoded and transformed into the digital consumables required by the system. Departing from the traditional pursuit of formal beauty in "living sculptures," the work confronts the harsh realities of digital labor and biopolitics. It critiques how individual freedom is devoured and reshaped by the immense technological architecture within a culture of entertainment to the death and gamified consumerism.
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