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Lou Hubbard

Lou Hubbard

EYE OPS 1-5 2013
5-channel HD video, colour, sound; 7 minutes 27 seconds
Monash University Collection, Melbourne
Purchased by the Faculty of Science, 2014

What appears to be a pair of surgical pincers seizes a confectionary eyeball while another eyeball is sliced and severed by a knife. A squishy eyeball is pressed up against a fleshy kneecap or slimes down a pair of bare legs into a bathtub. The scalpel-like knife dissects a goopy iris, which submits to destruction over and over again, as the artist takes on the traditionally masculinist histories of Surrealist cinema (as in the famous Un Chien Andalou by Luis Buñuel). The simultaneity of machine-vision across five screens perverts histories of gendered economies, gesturing to the erotic assaults on the body by lesser known Surrealist artists Dora Maar or Claude Cahun, known for their photomontages. EYE OPS positions the artist as both consumer and surgeon and the network of disembodied others as potential victims. Situated between the borders of human, interface and commodity, how does Lou gesture towards future operations of machine-seeing as continuations of feminised economies?

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