The Animatronic Flesh Shoe, created by artist Adam Brandejs, is stitched together with multiple pieces of latex rubber, cast out of molds made from his own skin. The shoe's toe and heel raise and lower as it occasionally vibrates/pulsates, and twitches on the floor as if it were still alive.
In our modern world of fast and easy consumption we rarely pay any thought to where products actually come from and how they were produced. The reality is that we usually exploit other humans to produce goods as cheaply as possible. We place our well being over that of others, and usually for trivial objects.
As this piece deals with issues of sweatshop labor and content ownership, each piece of skin is different in color, size, and texture and the Nike Logo is done in white and placed prominently overtop.
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The electronics were probably made in a third-world sweat shop.
Cronenberg theft aside, I always enjoy an artist's attempt to comment on conditions external to themselves through trite art. This is the problem with postmodern thought - By cannibalizing (almost literally in this sense) your subject, you place it upon a pedestal to be deified, rather than a subject of derision. Plus, it places too much faith in the average art consumer. Students of Adorno, Foucualt, etc might get the message, but the average joe who sees it would ask "can i get a pair?"
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