‘Game On’ is a performance/installation using electric muscle stimulation (EMS) to control real people as game characters. It extends Davies’ previous work with EMS to explore violence in modern entertainment and the ethical challenges faced by society as technology advances to a point where the level of realism in ‘games’ becomes indistinguishable from reality.
The installation design is based on the set from a scene in the 1970’s film ‘Future World’. Two ‘boxers’ are enclosed in a transparent Perspex box, in which they ‘fight’ for 12 rounds, and video taken from this live performance becomes part of the installation. Projected from above onto a translucent screen inside the enclosed stage, the images of the boxers continue fighting blurring the line between the virtual world and reality.
Damien Minton Gallery
12 to 16 November, 2013
Sydney
Game On, 2013, installation view at Underbelly Arts Festival, Cockatoo Island, 2013
Photography Alex Davies
Courtesy the artist
