Perpétuité I
Mechatronic installation
2021
About the installation series Perpétuité:
Industrial robots are conceived to perform repetitive tasks with almost absolute precision. They perform them without fatigue, without rest, without loss of concentration and without hesitation. This is the mastery of automation, a synchronised symphony.
In the installation series Perpétuité, we want to stage industrial machines in endless tasks guided by algorithms, in a kind of perpetual performance.
The vision we are trying to represent is that of our realization through the technoneoliberal dream, the total replacement of humans by automation.
We face our extinction as our technological creations, our machines, overtake us as masters of repetition, collaborative work, data and computation. But they also replace Sisyphus, condemned like him to repeat and undo a task in perpetuity.
About Perpétuité I:
In Perpétuité I the visitor is invited to contemplate the perfection of mechatronic automation, the repetitive and identical movements, two machines programmed to manifest the eternal and at the same time its impossible realization.
This installation functions as a metaphor of the present time, and offers a space for contemplation, in the face of our accelerated temporality. The imagination she tries to represent is that of our achievement through the technological dream. When human society is faced with its extinction, the eternal becomes a new task for our machines, a utopia in a future without humanity.
Credits
Perpétuité I by Félix Luque in Collaboration with Vincent Evrard
Perpétuité I is a coproduction of “secteur arts numériques, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles” and "Chroniques 2020 (Biennal of Digital Imagination)”.