Human Error
Commissioned by Chinese Arts Centre
Artists: Household and Dario Utreras
19 February – 30 April 2011
at Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, UK
HUMAN ERROR_The Photobooth from Household on Vimeo.
[from Press Release]
For the exhibition at Chinese Arts Centre, London based design collective Household and Dario Utreras, a former member of Household have created works that explore the relationship between machines and their users. The smooth operation of our daily lives relies heavily on the assistance of various machines. Technology makes our life easy but frustrates us when it lets us down. The exhibition highlights our reliance on machines to complete daily tasks and emphasises the potential for human error.
HUMAN ERROR_The Scanner from Household on Vimeo.
The artists have a specific interest in the use of machines in mass production; photocopiers, printers and scanners, which all work to speed up and streamline our work. We easily forget how we managed without these machines before we invented them. Household will produce large scale interactive sculptures, which invite visitors to cooperate in order to make them work. The machines will overcomplicate simple tasks and require a minimum of two or more visitors to run them, encouraging human error. Visitors are encouraged to bring friends or collaborate with other people in order to complete the tasks. The collaboration necessary to operate the machines follows the ethos of Household projects.