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The Fallen Gospel

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Year
2024 

Type
Installation

Performance

Material

Arduino, Resin, Wheelchair, Smartphone,clothes 0​

Size

65*60*150cm

This is a theatrical spectacle about
capital, technology, and the politics of the
body. A robot, personifying a capitalist, is
mechanically pushed through the bustling
streets of downtown Shanghai.
It monotonously repeats the supposed
truths once preached by capitalists—
struggle, success, gratitude, and hymns—in a mechanical tone.
These phrases, long integrated into the
collective social consciousness and shaping contemporary philosophy of survival, are now stripped to meaningless noise through deliberate repetition.
In this performance, the power of capital
and the invisible mechanisms of technology manifest in an ironically stark manner.

The design of the capitalist robot is not
to represent an individual but to serve
as a "symbol" revealing the automated
operations of capital power.
The robot's movements, devoid of emotion
or autonomous thought, merely propelled
by others, showcase the indifference
and invisibility of capital power through
repetitive, hollow quotations. The aversion
shown by passersby also reflects the
public's latent fear and distancing from
capital.

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