Clockwork Orange, 2023
Polylactic Acid, Aluminium, Perspex
76 x 156 x 15 cm
29 7/8 x 61 3/8 x 5 7/8 in
29 7/8 x 61 3/8 x 5 7/8 in
Edition of 11 plus 1 artist's proof
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Formed from an opto-temporal scan of Stanley Kubrick's dystopian film of the same name, the piece forms part of the artists tentative foray in the emergent world of 'AI'. Given...
Formed from an opto-temporal scan of Stanley Kubrick's dystopian film of the same name, the piece forms part of the artists tentative foray in the emergent world of 'AI'. Given how current 'AI' represents the arrival of a technology that has always been set in the 'near-future', the title of the original book gives an intriguing hint of how Burgess envisaged a future that has now become our present. On describing the meaning behind the name, Burgess said:
"I've implied the junction of the organic, the lively, the sweet – in other words, life, the orange – and the mechanical, the cold, the disciplined. I've brought them together in this kind of oxymoron, this sour-sweet word.”
Elsewhere the author wrote that when a man ceases to have free will, they are no longer a man. "Just a clockwork orange", a shiny, appealing object, but "just a toy to be wound-up by either God or the Devil, or (what is increasingly replacing both) the State.”
"I've implied the junction of the organic, the lively, the sweet – in other words, life, the orange – and the mechanical, the cold, the disciplined. I've brought them together in this kind of oxymoron, this sour-sweet word.”
Elsewhere the author wrote that when a man ceases to have free will, they are no longer a man. "Just a clockwork orange", a shiny, appealing object, but "just a toy to be wound-up by either God or the Devil, or (what is increasingly replacing both) the State.”