Schrödinger's Canary Consumer Event Horizon Anthropocene
Schrödinger's Canary - Vac, ironsand, feather, wood, glass, bakelite NZ$15000 €7400
- completed with feather and label as seen in lower photographs
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Schrödinger's Canary demonstrates a theory by positioning the post-industrial era as a vacuum cleaner cloaked in iron-sand housed in an 18th century-style industrial-revolution era vitrine.
This 'domestic black-hole' threatens to swallow everything, the kit and caboodle, the whole shooting match, the shebang.
Campaigning on household convenience, a salesperson marches door to door delivering promises of an unencumbered future.
A dream of a clean home awaits, filled to the brim with free time.
However the vacuum cleaner's function mimics our exploitative voracity. Insulated in ironsand it operates undetected.
As capitalism urges humankind to limitlessly harvest resources, our collective, insatiable greed sucks up the earth from beneath our feet.
Consumerism led by grand ideals from false profits (sic) has been unleashed globally creating a potential 'point of no return', an event horizon.
The Anthropocene* stoked by our disregard for alarm bells challenges our survival.
To preserve mass produced ephemeral gratification cycles this device swallowed the 'miner's canary' intentionally concealing any imminent dangers.
Do we unplug this preoccupation of commodifying our world, offer the metaphorical canary and by extension ourselves salvation, or do we continue to obfuscate our augury and remain willfully blind to commercial artifice, plutocratic hanky panky, our pleonexic destiny... ?
Is the canary dead or alive?
This 'domestic black-hole' threatens to swallow everything, the kit and caboodle, the whole shooting match, the shebang.
Campaigning on household convenience, a salesperson marches door to door delivering promises of an unencumbered future.
A dream of a clean home awaits, filled to the brim with free time.
However the vacuum cleaner's function mimics our exploitative voracity. Insulated in ironsand it operates undetected.
As capitalism urges humankind to limitlessly harvest resources, our collective, insatiable greed sucks up the earth from beneath our feet.
Consumerism led by grand ideals from false profits (sic) has been unleashed globally creating a potential 'point of no return', an event horizon.
The Anthropocene* stoked by our disregard for alarm bells challenges our survival.
To preserve mass produced ephemeral gratification cycles this device swallowed the 'miner's canary' intentionally concealing any imminent dangers.
Do we unplug this preoccupation of commodifying our world, offer the metaphorical canary and by extension ourselves salvation, or do we continue to obfuscate our augury and remain willfully blind to commercial artifice, plutocratic hanky panky, our pleonexic destiny... ?
Is the canary dead or alive?
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*Anthropocene
The current geological age, viewed as the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and environment. nb "some geologists argue that the Anthropocene began with the Industrial Revolution°" |
nb. My mother once cleaned my Roller Canary's ('Mr Wilkes') cage using a vacuum cleaner and accidentally sucked him up.
He was around 14 years old at the time and had long stopped singing.
Afterward he sang every day and lived on to be a very, very old bird.
He was around 14 years old at the time and had long stopped singing.
Afterward he sang every day and lived on to be a very, very old bird.
