Prompt 1.

In our reading, Morton defines hyperobject as “objects of such massive scale and temporality that they exceed the perceptive capacities of humans” with examples such as global warming and neoliberalism.

Considering the ideas I am experimenting with my work. I started to wonder if superstitions, traditions, and history can be viewed as a form of hyperobject. 

The artist and work I am relating to is Xu Bing and his Book from the Sky. This book was completed by 4000+ words that were unreadable for both the audiences and the artist. This makes me think about language and history and how they are pass down continuously through time.

Xu Bing. Book from the Sky. 1987-91.

I do not see the work I created as hyperobject,  but the container that holds the hyperobject that exist in my culture. The education system, social hierarchy, social expectation are things that were created by humans but are too large to think about.

 

Fang-Yi Su, Untitled, Fall 2018

Prompt 2.

According to our reading, OOO is a popular movement in contemporary philosophy characterized by a rejection of anthropocentrism (the privileging of the human over the nonhuman), and "correlationism", the post-Kantian assumption that reality is a product of human thinking.”

OOO argues that what we think are unique about human are not for human only.

I think OOO has a lot to do with sculpture because if we started to think of the world as object oriented rather than human oriented then what are we doing to the materials that we altered and turned into what we so called “sculpture”? We turned these materials into something meaningful for “us”, but what about for the material themselves? Is the wood I picked out from Lowes wood, or is that just something us humans categorize it as?