>Ubik the frog_2017
Mdf, ceiling fan motor, limiter, spray paint, digital print
100 x 100 x 35 cm *This work spins clockwise*
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This work's name comes from the Philip K. Dick novel Ubik. I was interested in making art about memes and the concept that a piece of content could become so popular that it would destroy the platform hosting it.
*This work spins clockwise* - I used the motor from a ceiling fan, with a limiter to adjust the speed.
Shown as part of; Good
Good, Double Good, Lewisham Art House, London (UK)_2017
Excerpt from Good Good,
Double Good’s text by Alexa Chung aka @chardonnie;
“This morning I learnt that if you chew gum whilst chopping onions you
won’t cry, and that if I submerge my iPhone in a bag of chickpeas it
will charge faster. I learnt that with just 15 easy steps I can overcome
my overproduction of earwax, and that when I was 17 years old I shared
an 87% facial resemblance to Brad Pitt. I watched as a Cane Toad smoked a
joint and an American middle-school choir sung of ‘Whips’ and ‘Nae
Naes’. I read an article on Quora that said Gustav Klimt used cat urine
as his favourite fixative, that half a millilitre of water is needed for
every single Google search, and that central heating makes you fat. I
saw on Twitter that VICE have published an interview with Nathan Oakley,
Flat Earther. And that Vince Cable is convinced Brexit will never
happen. I monitored a LoL vs DotA forum and am convinced that Noxus,
Bloodthirsty Goat Herder of Freljord was actually Shia Labeouf. And in
less than five minutes I saw Alex Jones sing of ‘Literal vampire
potbelly goblins hobbling round after us”, a montage of inspirational
Gordon Ramsey mood-boards, and scientific proof that Australia doesn’t
even exist.”
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