HAPPILY DOMINATED
Surveillance technologies create innovations that aim to make areas of society more efficient. The vision: Happy people whose „supposed“ needs are served by machines. By documenting everyday behavior, it is possible to predict probabilities. This is exactly where artificial intelligences can be used, for example, to free humans from the multiplicity of decision options.
Is it desirable to create a species that happily dominates us humans?
In the role play of dominance and subjugation, the need for empowerment can be found in masochistic behavior.
The submissive sets the rules and gives themself into a framework that has been set for themself, into a situation in which they can let go. In order not to lose control in the power imbalance and to create a protected relationship, trust with the sadistic person is of great importance. Consensually and under pre-arranged conditions, the masochist can gain a sense of empowerment.
If it is a current social need to feel relieved, it could be desirable to create a self-determined species that dominates humanity.
Video: Patrycja Planik and Vanessa Ohlhausen / Performers: Valentin Oppermann, Jasna Bannert and Vanessa Ohlhausen
Exhibition at Design PF Pforzheim and Dampfzentrale Bern
PROCESS – HAPPILY DOMINATED
