de/composition
2023, audio file 3:28
This idea development has come from questioning the idea of “productivity” in a late-capitalist society, and how my art practice might seek to disengage with or critique cycles of consumption and productivity for profit in art and society.
AI is about speeding up access to ideas, things, and breaking down ownership, in order to boost human productivity and knowledge. I am also reading researching the capacity it has to destroy existing knowledge systems and authorship (Bridle 2023), render humans obsolete (Hogarth, in Syme 2023), and exploit workers (Perrigo 2023).
Furthermore, I’m intersecting with a psychological or artistic idea of potential. The essay of Pakistani psychoanalyst Masud Khan “On Lying Fallow” speaks to inviting an emotional and physical state of mind that “allows for that larval inner experience which distinguishes true psychic creativity from obsessional productiveness.” (Popova 2023).