Technologies, tools and machines, are made to assist and extend human activities. These are corporeal remnants that indicate proximity of a subject and an apparatus of desire for control.
The work “Babbling Developmental Stage 1” is a study of the relationship between humans and tools. It is a reversal of its relationship by ‘using tools in a tool-centric way instead of a human-centric way’. In each video, I enact to use tools in a way to assist tools without modifying the parts that makes comfortable to the user’s body.
In the installation, the monitors, which are presenting videos of enactment, are attached to each tool that correspond with the enactment. This is based on the thought of considering monitor also as a tool which defines the interaction with the viewers and emphasis the agencies of tools. Viewers have to follow the robot vacuum to see the ‘robot vacuum video’, oscillate their bodies and face the wind to watch the ‘fan video’, and bend low to see inside the dustpan to watch the ‘broom video’. These demanded actions are meant to locate the viewers to the performer’s laborious action presented in the video and also locate them in a familiar place where they interact with tools as a user in their daily lives. I hoped to actively use the trait of sculpture as a socio-cultural tool which communicates with the public in a designated space.
