Anne Duk Hee Jordan - Making Kin 2.1 (2020-2021)

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Making Kin 2.1 (2020-2021)
Site-specific pond installation with living ecosystem, robotic crab and drawing, printed on banner

How do we want to live in the future? In a combination of various media such as living plants, installation, drawings, and robotics, Anne Duk Hee Jordan, explores concepts of interspecies community and real and fictional landscapes. "Making Kin" is a maxim coined by the philosopher of science and pioneer cyborg feminist Donna Haraway who calls for an interspecies symbiosis. To ensure a liveable future for the following generations, we, as mortal "critters" need to link up with multiple configurations of places, times, matters and meanings so that new life can be "composted" from the planet-destroying Homo sapiens. The artist scrutinizes established terms like nature, culture and technology, including their definitional boundaries. Jordan is interested in the hybrid network between species and their environment. In a humorous and playful manner, she draws up an experimental and future-oriented scenario that challenges our customary perspectives on life and likewise makes a new model of community both imaginable and apprehensible. Part of Making Kin 2.1 is the work Water Crab (2017- ongoing) from her Artificial Stupidity series, which is conceived to function as a marine robotic. As this series is about allowing failure and reclaiming the domain of robotics in terms of non-intelligence, this Water Crab is not able to clean up all the human waste in the oceans, but is rather a prototype of this idea and avocation that design and art is not only there to make the world a better place. Does a non-functional artificial bot also have the right to float our waters?

Transience and transformation are the central themes in the work of Anne Duk Hee Jordan (Berlin). Through movement and performance, Jordan gives materiality another dimension – she builds motorized sculptures and creates edible landscapes. Her sculptures are intended to draw the viewer into the present and open a dialogue between natural phenomena, philosophy and art. Jordan opens up doors to a universe where she humorously and romantically creates machines that juxtapose robotic consciousness with organic cyclic decay and life. She raises questions about "agency" and encourages a change of perspective. She shifts the focus away from humans towards the entire ecology. terrestrialassemblage.com

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