Name: Performance: ROSIE GIBBENS "To Dust: A Memorial for Robot Vacuum Cleaners"
Start: 2026-05-29T17:00:00+03:00
End: 2026-05-29T17:15:00+03:00
Location: VERDE

Performance: ROSIE GIBBENS "To Dust: A Memorial for Robot Vacuum Cleaners"

Riga Art Week

An absurd ceremonial performance mourning broken robot vacuums and our bond with technology.

VERDE

Please RSVP in advance if possible. If registrations are closed online, we still encourage you to attend — additional spots may become available on site depending on venue capacity.

ENGRosie Gibbens presents a performance from her ongoing series Technocreep, exploring the intersections of intimacy, labour, and surveillance within domestic technologies and robotics. Combining absurdity with speculative ritual, the work imagines a near future in which broken robot vacuum cleaners are mourned through elaborate funeral ceremonies and memorial objects cast from their discarded parts. Inspired by real accounts of owners forming emotional attachments to household robots, the performance reflects on how technological dependency reshapes human relationships with everyday objects.At the same time, the work addresses growing concerns around surveillance and data extraction in domestic spaces. Reworking “found” audio imagined as recordings collected by a robot vacuum over its lifetime, the performance transforms private traces of everyday life into a haunting memorial soundtrack. Through irony, dark humour, and ritualistic staging, the piece examines how emotional attachment, consumer technology, and corporate data collection increasingly intertwine.LVRozija Gibbensa prezentē performanci no savas darbu sērijas „Technocreep“, kurā pēta intimitātes, darba un datu uzraudzības krustpunktus sadzīves tehnoloģiju un robotikas kontekstā. Apvienojot absurdo ar spekulatīvu rituālu, darbs attēlo tuvu nākotni, kurā par salauztiem robotu putekļsūcējiem tiek sērots, rīkojot bēru ceremonijas un veidojot piemiņas priekšmetus no to izmesto detaļu atliekām. Iedvesmojoties no reāliem stāstiem par īpašniekiem, kuri izveidojuši emocionālu saikni ar sadzīves robotiem, performancē tiek pārdomāts, kā atkarība no tehnoloģijām pārveido cilvēku attiecības ar ikdienas priekšmetiem.Tajā pašā laikā darbs pievēršas pieaugošajām bažām par patērētāju uzraudzību un datu ieguvi mājsaimniecības vidē. Pārstrādājot „atrastos” audioierakstus, kas tēlos ir robotu putekļsūcēju savākti ieraksti to darbības laikā, performances pārvērš privātas ikdienas dzīves pēdas par spokainu piemiņas skaņu celiņu. Izmantojot ironiju, melno humoru un rituālu inscenējumu, darbs pēta, kā emocionālā saikne, patērētāju tehnoloģijas un datu vākšana arvien vairāk savijas kopā.

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