Fully Automated Luxury, inspired by the Utopian political ideology of Fully Automated Luxury Communism, is a playful, immersive artwork about how we might subsist, thrive and be subsumed in a post-work future.
Fully Automated Luxury is a provocative ideology;
proponents claim radical technologies will liberate us from waged labour and that advanced green technologies will keep us all in a state of ecologically sound plenty.
proponents claim radical technologies will liberate us from waged labour and that advanced green technologies will keep us all in a state of ecologically sound plenty.
A collaboration with integrated designer Rachael Guinness, this work combines video, drone choreography, audience participation and DIY robots to investigate a speculative de-drudgery society, where machines do the heavy lifting and labour as we know it is a thing of the past.