Research Project:
DEGENERATIVE KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION
“It is possible that the thing we call “a brain” evolved many times independently. Or it could be that a lot of our ancestors had brains but lost them – which suggests the costs of building brains sometimes outweigh the benefits.”
The research project ‘Degenerative Knowledge Production’ expands on the notion of degeneration—historically framed as “perverted stupidity” threatening societal order, now reframed as a scientific concept encompassing biological alternatives, medical decline, and mathematical simultaneity. Through lecture performances, documentaries, and sculptures, I explore how this degeneration, this stupidity, operate within societal structures through concepts like anti-fragility, artificial stupidity, wireheading, impostor syndrome, minimal intelligence/maximal stupidity, or neuropower—approaching intelligence and stupidity beyond their catalytic codependency. I like to imagine intelligence as a 'thing', with stupidity as the void surrounding it
Works:
Degenerative Knowledge Production - Video
Degenerative Knowledge Production - Lecture Performance
Exhibitions:
Degenerative Knowledge Production
Radical Stupidity (at the workspace)