Do Cyborgs Get Cold? Probably.
$1,500.00
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Rob Kolhouse
2017
Mid-range Black Clay
H18″ x L12″ x W11″
My research and resultant artwork address the perception of the socially-constructed gender binary through the use of a cybernetic body and the idea of a fluid and contingent self. Heavily inspired by the classic cyberpunk Ghost in the Shell and the gender theories of Donna Haraway’s Cyborg Manifesto, these works explore the ideas behind a constructed being. Haraway argues that the cyborg is neither truly male nor female since it is built to represent an inner identity of the being and fully realized. Although veneered in an armored shell that exhibits some gendered characteristics, these sculptures exhibit elements of androgyny that blur distinction between male and female.
