SCOTT BILLINGS

Scott Billings, Übermensch, Installation View, Wil Aballe Art Projects, 2018

Übermensch (2018) consists of a miniature set and industrial robot arms rehearsing a scene from Hitchcock’s, Rope (1948), a film based on the true story of Leopold and Loeb who killed a 14-year-old boy just for the thrill of it. Hitchcock described his single-duration film as a cinematographical stunt driven by the technical pursuit of the never-ending long take. The piece attempts to equate the activities of the auteur with the murderer and revisits ethical and moral debates of Nietzsche’s concept of the Übermensch in the age of artificial intelligence and posthumanism.

Scott Billings, Übermensch, Installation View, Wil Aballe Art Projects, 2018

Scott Billings, Übermensch, Installation View, Wil Aballe Art Projects, 2018

Scott Billings, Übermensch, Installation View, Wil Aballe Art Projects, 2018

Scott Billings
Double Double Pendulum, 2014
Laser-pointer Photogram
11″ x 14″

Scott Billings
Brice Marden Annexation, 2007
3D Print
8”x 10”x 8”