Ergonomic Futures, 2016—
Furniture, website

Commissioned by the 11th Gwangju Biennale and Lafayette Anticipations, Paris. Now installed as museum furniture in Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Man, Paris; Art Sonje Center, Seoul; and the Seodaemun Museum of Natural History, Seoul

Ergonomic Futures is a multi-part project, which asks questions about body normativity through the lens of speculative evolution. Specifically, this work comes out of interviews with paleo-anthropologists, evolutionary biologists, and genetic engineers. To each I have asked: What are future scenarios for imagining new types of human bodies, and how might these bodies cast relief on conversations about “fitness” and ability in the present day? Working from my interviews, I am making different types of ergonomic seating for these future bodies, which will serve as functional “benches” in fine art and natural history museums. Additionally, I have designed a standalone website, featuring my first ever piece of online literature, which draws upon the aforementioned interviews.

View website: www.ergonomicfutures.com

Video documentation of lecture at e-flux, October 18th 2016

Interview with Anna Colin, Dis

Chimeras in drag, a conversation with Adam Gibbons on Schlosspost