祖先 master - 艺术空间

上海未来一公里 2019年09月

“Which comes first, chicken or egg?” Do humans train machines or are humans trained by machines? In Descartes' dualism of mind and matter, the body has an extension (the physical space) and cannot think. "The mind, on the other hand, can think without having an extension." Now that machines are showing more and more anthropomorphic features with technological development, this continuity becomes instead a fundamental questioning of the reality of the human soul: "Does the human being have a soul above the material body?" "Are human beings simply more sophisticated machines?" In this work, the inversion and manipulation of the traditional relationship between machine and earth narratively bridges the break in the chain of continuity between machine and even animal and human, and ponders this question in a way that belongs to this century.