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- John Burke
John
Burke
WHEN THE LIGHTS GO OUT
‘By his science and technology…Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on to him and they still give him much trouble at times.’ Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
My work is concerned with prosthetic technology; the means of congealing ‘human biology’ with ‘fabricated materials’. Prosthetic technology conjures up a Post human condition that refer to the addition, replacement, extension and enhancement of the human form, often exacerbated in development by modern warfare. The work also focuses on the fragility, pain and ephemeralness of the human condition and explores the anthropomorphic phobia of recognising human structural traits and characteristics in various manufactured products and artificial intelligence.
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