Suicide vest (2006)
Theme: The Negativity of Technology
VISUAL RAGE Institute Of the Contemporary Arts Singapore
A suicide vest that looks like the actual thing, but functions a different outcome.
The vest suggest a terrifying scene, and could erupt into a devastating end. This artwork illustrate how devices could be activated remotely via wireless control. The vest is equipped with dynamites look-alikes and wires. Attached to these devices are a single ordinary, everyday device, the mobile phone. By calling the mobile phone, user will then activate the vest. But there will not be any destruction, instead the dynamites will spin in a whimsical manner providing a visual spectacle. The outcome is a subversion of the destructive force. In the background also will be playing a song that is both religious yet strangely uncanny, “he’s got the whole world in his hand”.
This is to evidently prove that calls could be made from anywhere around the world. Ambiguous and destructive, all thanks to the advancement of technology.
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