is a performative installation involving a mechanical mop, trapped robotic brushes and spilling viscous fluids. Four systems, one mechanic-repetitive , another one robotic-agitated, a viscous liquid and an abrupt precipice, interact and interfere with one another. A disaster-prone scenario unfolds as the protagonists, apparently set to clean, spill, interrupt and hinder each other, creating an ever more slippery mess in intricately choreographed ways.
The work focuses a lens on a common tendency in human endeavour; our overly complicated mechanisms and procedures to produce, control, accumulate and maintain. Each process calls forth new processes and in endless thwarted patterns they restore, redistribute and renew the issues that prior processes have so sophisticatedly invested resources in.
On Track materialises notions of the recurrent, futile and unstable, in a formation of interacting systems, at whose core lies repetitiveness, interference and deterioration. It becomes an apparatus propelling a futile continuum, a working conglomeration of machinery, resources, processes, interactions, interruptions and turmoil. Destined to clean and to restore, the systems are hindered, interfere and eventually fail - a process gone off track.
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On Track was made possible by the financial support of the Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst and has received production funding from Media Arts Board Austrian Federal Minisrty of Education Arts and Culture. It was created within the eMobilArt framework and is supported by a grant from the New South Wales Government - Arts NSW, through a program administered by the National Association for the Visual Arts.
