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ALASTAIR LAAS


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      CondemNation (2018)

      LED Digital display
      101.6 x 20.32cm
      Exhibition view: (H)AKT, Ugly Duck, Bermondsey, London.       Ciracade is an analogous structure formed allegorically, preserving the principles of a self-contained organisation that governs light and mobility, providing a schema for the automation and commodification of emotion.

      Mirroring Bourriaud's concerns, written in 'The Exform', that the 'proletariat' may be becoming dissociated. Here, Ciracade attempts to form a microcosm of industry, exhibiting a mechanised interpretation of Schadenfreude ('malicious joy' at the expense of another), in lieu of an under-class driven labour system purposed exclusively for capital gain. 

      The peripheral light ring is automated by a smartphone app, changing to affect the internal-body clock of viewing parties. This unspoken procedural system invites discourse around appointed capitalist frameworks whose purpose is to maintain enterprise at any cost.