Taotie is an automated installation project - a machine producing moving images by projecting shadows from a modular model based on automated factories and distribution centers. The project draws its influences from pre-cinema, notably 18th century phantasmagoria, of which it is a contemporary and technological reinterpretation.
The night has always been the space-time of rest and sleep, but this model seems to be disrupted today. The instant connectivity of the world through high-speed internet, the decentralisation of the economy, the speed of distribution centers and their delivery in less than 24 hours, the adoption of teleworking in times of the pandemic, are pushing towards a model oriented towards a fragmentation of activity time, a desynchronisation of the body with society and with what it produces. The spatial outcome of this logic of continuous activity is the ‘Dark Factory’, an automated factory in which natural and artificial light is superfluous, as no one works there.
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