Share Prize interview: knowbotic research

October 8, 2010 3:32 pm

knowbotic research has been selected for the Share Prize 2010 exhibition, that wil be presented from the 2nd until the 7th of November at the Regional Museum of Natural Science of Turin.

– We live in an age of serious media overexposure, where Warhol’s 15 minutes of fame have become the eternity of a Facebook profile that cannot be removed. Everyone wants visibility, where as macghillie_ just a void prefers disguise…
MacGhillie is a ‘prefer not’ actor, in between any claim for identity and recognition, just roaming around, defying a goal, without intention, withdrawing from purpose. Indifferent to what is
happening, not man, nor woman, not dominant, nor subjecting – no will to communicate. A vacant angel, a creature without a creator, a medium without a message, take care, we walk
between chasms!

– macghillie_ just a void represents how we are blind to the unknown, reaffirming the existence of the undesirable and the unclassifiable in the urban environment. Could this entity of yours be
considered a sort of urban hack based on a mistake?
SYes, the camouflage suit doesn’t serve as camouflage at all. MacGhillie is becoming hyperpresent through the rather peculiar outfit. On the other hand, the figure as such can not be decoded by most of the passers-by. What is this? A tramp, a lunatic, an animal, someone who has missed Helloween? Most people confronted with this anonymised protagonist cannot solve these questions, and thus do not want to see him. This is something very typical for a overregulated cities. Cities that gives space to everything that is calculable but declares the rest non-existant. MacGhillie ,a visual leftover that remains.

– macghillie_ just a void associates the hyperpresence of a mask with the possibility of camouflage within the urban environment. Is the hypercostume hyperbole for an identity which can always be found also in everyday life?
Yes, we are all fuzzy-heads who have no eyes or ears. We don`t have hair either. We cannot talk because we have no mouth. We have no nose either. We don`t even have arms or legs. We have no stomach, no back, no spine, and we have no innards at all. We don`t have anything. So we don’t even know who we’re talking about.