Beyond good and evil, make way toward the waste land.
Materials: Ceramic, iron, wood, glass, ash, other
Dimensions: 8900×3200×4200 mm (W/H/D)
Within a large glass case are dust-covered chairs, a bed, cabinets, chipped marble pillars, oil painting, and other weathered items which appear to be from a forgotten hotel room.
The symmetry, motif, and coloration are suggestive of the pure white room in the final scenes of Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
This final room appears within the movie as a room prepared by the monolith (an advanced computer which guides humans) for the next step in human evolution. If this massive sculpture were a faithful re-creation of the room, destroyed and weathered, what are we to think of it?
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Destroying a room prepared by an advanced computer for the purpose of human evolution. How can we interpret this work/procedure? This work can be alluding to a departure from the 20th-century,
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This project was titled “Agricultural Revolution 3.0”.
According to THE EUGENE Studio, “Agricultural Revolution 3.0” is the imagination of a city in which the dual extrapolation of smart agriculture and biotechnology allow for agricultural product to construct not only the conventional foods but also various materials and infrastructure necessary for life – that is, the potential for “produce to play a role equivalent to, or exceeding, that of petroleum” and the realization of an agricultural city to simultaneously support that potential – not a dense urban cluster of skyscrapers but a landscape which retains its rolling countryside, yet is the center of key industries while circulating within a limited