La Société Automatique
Perpétuité IV
Audio/video installation & Textile
2025
Perpétuité IV is part of our solo exhibition: La Société Automatique.
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 IV:
perpétuité IV is a parody of the excesses of automation and hyperproduction in the Capitalocene era.
This triptych depicts the production of cars, from manufacturing to autonomous driving. Machines carry out their activity indefinitely, like futuristic ghosts in free entropy.
This space invites us to reflect on our relationship with production, consumption, destruction and desire.
The experience is supported by an algorithmic music composition. Infinite, it emphasises the idea of a perpetual, automated cycle with no beginning and no end.
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Credits
Perpétuité IV by Félix Luque in collaboration with Le Motel
Original soundtrack : Le Motel
Technic: video stream, software, algorithmic music composition.
Perpétuité IV is part of “La Société Automatique” a coproduction of Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (secteur arts numériques), LABoral, Europalia Espagne and iMAL.