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.”
- Excerpt from the video Degenerative Knowledge Production
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)