The achievement society does not distinguish between bodies and machines. Both are pushed past their operational limits by the same demand for continuous output. The body under the permanent demand for productivity behaves like an overloaded system. It slows down and eventually fails. Burnout Machines explores the territory where both humans and machines under pressure are no longer individual entities, but part of a complex and interdependent network.
Working with kinetic sculpture, digital installation, and performance, the duo imagines and builds systems doomed to fail. Their material language is drawn directly from this condition: loop, repetition, overload, delay, the pause that is not rest but threshold. The residency at iMAL and LABoral is an investigation into what machine exhaustion actually looks like when materialized, and what it reveals about the human body that built these machines in its own image.
Collaborative project with Yannis Gkouzoumas
This project was made with the LAB-oratorium Residency in collaboration with iMAL [Brussels, BE] and LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial [Gijón, ES]
