Krafttremor - Parkinson's Disease Orchestra
LuYang
陆扬
Production date
2011
Object Detail
Media
inkjet print, mounted on diasec
Measurements
203.5 x 159.5 cm
Notes
Recalling Frankenstein’s monster, zapped with electricity – part terrifying video game, part cyborg fantasy – the provocative work of Shanghai-based Lu Yang challenges ethical boundaries. She deals with difficult aspects of the contemporary world, confronting our deepest anxieties: monstrously cruel experimentation; medical technologies beyond the wildest dreams of speculative fiction; the new fluidity of gender, race and identity; and the function of religious belief in the contemporary world. Lu examines these issues through sophisticated animations and deadpan instructional charts and diagrams. Beneath the lurid surface and the cybernetic dazzle, however, is a constant reminder of fleshly decay and mortality. In this print, four sufferers of Parkinson’s disease are lined up in a row. Above them, the artist’s avatar plays DJ. The work connects with Lu Yang’s video work Krafttremor; in this challenging examination of moral restraints on contemporary science and biotechnologies, samples of the frequencies of Parkinsonian tremors are synthesised to create a syncopated dance rhythm.
Accession number
2011.055