我是复活者

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Carol Boram-Hays
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摘要:沃斯瓦·唐纳德·奥古斯丁,又名沃斯瓦德(出生于1984年),是一位“重生者”——通过雕塑、装置和二维作品的创作,从曾经有生命的生物体中提取材料,并赋予它们新的生命。他是全球众多艺术家中的一员,他们正在思考人类通过技术和/或进化转变为“超人类”的未来。本文将探讨Waswad的实践,将他的作品置于超人类主义理论及其在非洲的应用的背景下。它将研究艺术家如何受到当前社会、政治和经济事件的启发,利用他的作品来回应技术对非洲大陆上人们的生活和身体以及更广泛环境的历史和当代影响,无论是积极的还是消极的。他创作的艺术作品直接参考了他在乌干达的经历,更广泛地说,他的形式混合了技术和自然的品质,与许多全球对当前世界变化的担忧产生了共鸣。本文探讨了Waswad对进化新途径的探索如何要求我们考虑我们现在生活的人类世时代的更广泛影响。
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Waswad the Reanimator
ABSTRACT:Wasswa Donald Augustine a.k.a.,Waswad (b. 1984), is a reanimator—taking materials derived from once living organisms and breathing new life into them through the creation of sculptures, installations, and two-dimensional works. He is among a number of artists working around the globe to consider a future where humans are transformed through technology and/or evolution into “transhumans.” Exploring Waswad’s practice, this article will situate his work within the context of transhumanist theories and their application within Africa. It will examine how the artist, inspired by current social, political, and economic events, is using his work to respond to the historical and contemporary impacts, both positive and negative, of technology to the lives and bodies of those on the African continent as well as the wider environment. The works of art that he creates refer directly to his experiences in Uganda and, more broadly, the hybrid technological and natural quality of his forms resonant with many global anxieties about the current changes going on in the world. This article examines how Waswad’s exploration of new avenues for evolution asks us to consider the wider impacts of the Anthropocene age in which we are now living.
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