Video Installation + robot installation

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disarming (2023) is a performative exploration of the relation between a detached robot arm, a gym mattress, and its human observers. A learning and unlearning of locomotions in less anthropocentric environments and times. The work playfully explores the ambiguity of disarming as a process of physical detachment and emotional attachment. 

Locomotion can be seen as a primal (post-birth) instinct and ultimate act of independence. In this work, a robotic limb, somehow detached from a human-constructed technological body, tries to find concepts for advancing movements even though it initially wasn’t made for locomotion – vulnerable yet determined. 

Parallel to a familiar dystopian plot of technological autonomy and the feelings going with it, witnessing these first clumsy tries may awaken compassion or even a certain emotional bond. 

This work was realized within the framework of a European Media Art Platform residency program at WRO Art Center with support from the Creative Europe Culture Programme of the European Union. Exhibiting disarming at Millenials was made possible with the support of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sports and the support of the State of Styria department for Culture, Europe and Sports. 

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Artwork included in the exhibition Millennials, the media art of Generation Y.