Peter William Holden

(UK/DE)  

choreographic installation. Composite plastic, Computer, Compressed Air Components, Mp3 Player, 5m x 4m x 1.50m

10-14.09.2013, 11:00 – 20:00 

Akademia Gallery, NAA

“Vicious Circle” is inspired by the “The Industrial Revolution” and the subsequent changes in human development brought about by that revolution. It is a brutalist robotic structure and it is a representation of some of the fears I have with technology. The motion of the machine reminds me of the relentless movement of progress as the machine moves to its predetermined program. Though paradoxically it is possible to see beauty within its movements as the life size cast hands rise and fall forming a swarm that flocks together like birds in a choreographed dance to Prokofiev’s “Dance of the knights".

 

Photos: Medial Mirage / Matthias Möller