‘Duel of Zero-Basic Athletes’
The Duel of the Novice Athletes with Zero Basics is an uninteresting work.
Two robotic vacuum cleaners, designed to facilitate human life, perform their tasks endlessly over long periods of time. Their labour is repetitive and dull. These bored workers seem destined for obsolescence from the moment they were invented.
The two ‘cleaners,’ each ‘holding’ a ping-pong paddle, appear to be attempting a game of table tennis. Occasionally, they manage to hit the ball. Most of the time, however, guided only by their internal programming, they move aimlessly across the space—until they reach an edge, change direction, and continue forward.
Xinghao Liang,
lum, sweeping robots, ping pong paddles,
150 × 80 × 150 cm,
2023
Duel of Zero-Basic Athletes, Installation view
‘In Tandem’, 14/02/2023
Chelsea College of Art, London
‘In Tandem’, 14/02/2023
Chelsea College of Art, London
Duel of Zero-Basic Athletes, Installation view
‘In Tandem’, 14/02/2023
Chelsea College of Art, London
‘In Tandem’, 14/02/2023
Chelsea College of Art, London
零基础新手运动员的对决是一件无趣的作品。为方便人类生活而制造的两个扫地机器人，它们长年累月地工作，漫长而枯燥，这些百无聊赖的工人似乎在被发明出来时就注定了走向淘汰。
两名“清扫工”，每人“拿着”一个乒乓球拍，看起来像是在尝试打乒乓球，偶尔会击打到，但由于他们自己的内部编程，大多数时候都是漫无目的地移动——直到他们碰到边缘，于是改变方向并继续前进。
梁星昊，
铁板、乒乓球台、摆锤、扫地机器人、乒乓球拍，
150 × 80 × 150 cm，
2023