Subsumption Machine

The Subsumption Machine is a skeletal multi-level media tower hacked with video projections, TV monitors, billboards, stage sets, building models, live video feeds, and surveillance cameras. As the audience walks through the chaotic architectural structure the onstage and backstage merge. Participants are captured on camera and unwittingly inserted into the media stream. In a Warholian gesture, The Subsumption Machine flattens all hierarchy of representation to a common supersaturated image field, depicting the postmodern dystopian world as a biopolitical “prison house of language”.