Standards and Double Standards
Subsculpture 3
Standards and Double Standards is an interactive installation that consists of 10 to 100 fastened belts that are suspended at waist height from stepper motors on the ceiling of the exhibition room. Controlled by a computerized tracking system, the belts rotate automatically to follow the public, turning their buckles slowly to face passers-by. When several people are in the room their presence affects the entire group of belts, creating chaotic patterns of interference. Non-linear behaviours emerge such as turbulence, eddies and relatively quiet regions. One of the aims of this piece is to visualize complex dynamics, turning a condition of pure surveillance into an unpredictable connective system. The piece creates an "absent crowd" using a fetish of paternal authority: the belt.
General info
Single belt version
Ten belts version
Fifty belts version
100 belts version
Exhibitions
- Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Unstable Presence, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada, 2018.
- Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Pseudomatismos, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, México, 2015 - 2016.
- Fortunate Objects, The Cisneros Fontanals Foundation, Miami, Florida, United States, 2008.
- Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, bitforms gallery, New York City, New York, United States, 2007.
- Subsculptures, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Genève, Switzerland, 2005 - 2006.
- Techniques of the Visible, Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2004.
- Art Basel Unlimited - Art Basel 35, Galería OMR, Basel, Switzerland, 2004.
Credits
- Rafael Lozano-Hemmer - concept, direction
- Conroy Badger - programming
- Will Bauer, Sandra Badger, Karl-Erik Riesach, Peggy Strong, Robyn Badger, Jennifer Laughlin, Denis Sulivan and Olav Kahlbaum - production support
- Rockefeller Foundation (NY) and Fondation Langlois (Montréal) - development funding
- Ella Cisneros collection (Miami) and MUAC collection (Mexico City).
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