OH SON, DEAR SON
The Rodina
Inštalácia Oh Son, Dear Son bola prvýkrát predstavená v apríli tohto roku na výstave De Dingen v Stroom Den Haag. Jej druhá prezentácia bude v trnavskej Galérii Výklad - kde sa do bývalej predajne s látkami opäť vracajú látky vo forme kritického dizajnu, ktoré v galérii nainštalovala pani, ktorá sa v minulosti živila aranžovaním výloh a výzdobou interiérov. To, čo je prezentované v galérií nie sú len potlačené látky, ale aj práca samotná.
The Rodina's installation articulates the effects of human-machine entanglements on contemporary labour practices.
Graphic design is one of the prime fields where human and machine become more and more entangled. As motherboards become smaller, computers quieter and more powerful, digital labour becomes seemingly less material, less visible and audible, and so do the circumstances of labour itself. The living-time of bodies disappears into the working-time of computers.
Oh Son, Dear Son is a monument to the freelance designer. It is an ‘audio situation' which takes the Czech folk song Oh Son, Dear Son (Ach Synku, Synku) as a starting point to consider the human-machine entanglements of digital design. It seeks to make this convolution audible: 2 hands, 2 eyes, one mouth, a brain floating inside skull, bones in fingers, keyboard strokes, vibration of cooling fan resonating in working desk, silicon chips on motherboard, squeaking of office chairs, mouse clicks, the gurgle of a coffee machine pump. 300 hours of labour have been compressed into a 6-minute soundscape.
