Human Pyramid

Wall People: HUMAN PYRAMID by Isla Hansen:: Supported by FRFAF #2020-029 from STUDIO for Creative Inquiry on Vimeo.

The exhibition Human Pyramid by artist Isla Hansen explores the relationship between body and technology, confronting the feeling of oppressive technological progress with objects of play. Through the use of digital fabrication processes and automated technologies in combination with the hand made, hand modeled, hand molded, and hand finished, the artist aims to reveal the myth of automation — the often hidden human labor that is always a necessary part of using automated tools, often perceived as more technological than our own bodies.

DIY Sandbox Prisoner: HUMAN PYRAMID by Isla Hansen:: Supported by FRFAF #2020-029 from STUDIO for Creative Inquiry on Vimeo.

Human Pyramid explores the contradiction, absurdity, tragedy, and joy inherent in the human attempt to build worlds and control them through the use of tools and labor. Inspired by DIY home construction shows, erector sets and construction games, objects of play, sports media, and the notion of self-replicating machines, Human Pyramid searches for an aesthetic that reclaims the tools of oppressive systems constraining bodies at play and bodies at work.

hand tools ASMR: HUMAN PYRAMID by Isla Hansen:: Supported by FRFAF #2020-029 from STUDIO for Creative Inquiry on Vimeo.

This exhibit was supported by grant#2020-029 from the Frank-Ratchye Fund for Art @ the Frontier. Additional images available here.