Who Have you Become a Machine for? 03
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- ProjectThe Conscious Cricket
- FramedNo
This body of work operates as a call to consciousness as governments attempt to alienate the familiar and steal away our agency. These works refer to the Italian Fascist and Futurist obsession with industry, as well as to the idea of cultural “programming.”
In a series of posters connected to the project 'Conscious Cricket', this project analyzes the Italian fairytale of Pinocchio. In these photographs I am donned in mechanical parts, “Who have you become a machine for?” The question is framed to emphasize the fact that—while many are forcibly made to submit to ideology—many others willfully give themselves over to political or cultural conditioning and put themselves in someone else's power.
Body as Machine
In a series of posters, I extend this metaphor, donning mechanical parts while subtitled by the question, “Who have you become a machine for?” The question is framed to emphasize the fact that—while many are forcibly made to submit to ideology—many others willfully give themselves over to political or cultural conditioning and put themselves in someone else's power.
The Conscious Cricket
Written in 1883 by Carlo Collodi, The Adventures of Pinocchio follows a wooden puppet who dreams of someday becoming a real boy. Narrating Pinocchio’s picaresque journeys through Tuscany, the novel broadcasts a complex and ambiguous network of pedagogical messages, which have been variously interpreted as both championing and critiquing middle class values, while also prioritizing the human journey towards self-actualization. In the more than 100 years since its writing, the fairytale has become one of the most widely known cultural icons and is the third most translated book in the world.
