THE PITS

Description:

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The Pits is an installation that descends through tiers and levels: the pit in your stomach, in the ground, and in your brain. It uses eating as a crux, imagining the digestion, assimilation, offloading, and onboarding that occur when giving yourself to be devoured by technologies or entities with their own agency and agendas. The work shifts between different perspectives—human, non-human, pizza box, and microwave—exploring the pleasure and horror of willingly opting in and zoning out.

 

At the center of the installation is a conversation pit, covered in locally sourced organic mud, constructed in the gallery, allowing you to physically enter the work. Video projections, created using bespoke software, extend the room with predictive zooms and pans through artificial latent space. The large video projection, "VORE," moves through bodies and places, navigating the relentless extraction of thought and resources, the replacement of cognition with corporate agents, and the more sensual side of being eaten alive.

 

In the installation, these elements interweave. A melancholy pizza box and microwave lament their abandonment and disregard, having live conversations through WiFi-linked chatbots. In the conversation pit, you encounter an amorphous, shape-shifting sinkhole, continuously consuming itself, mutating, constructed from randomized prompts designed to tease out the hidden depths of its diffusion model.

 

The Pits explores the periphery, what isn't absorbed and used: the leftovers, the unscrapable, the discarded, the byproducts, indigestion. What becomes desirable, important, a delicacy—the distinctly unnerving. That which finds a way through new waste vocabularies.

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Solo show at Chemist Gallery, October - December 2024