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Hybridization Machine

Artist: Saya Woolfalk (American (b. Japan), b. 1979)

Date: 2013

Medium: Mannequin, fabric, steel sculpture, video monitors, and video

Dimensions:

80 × 46 1/2 × 15 3/4 in. (203.2 × 118.1 × 40 cm)

Other (Height without floating skull): 69 in. (175.3 cm)

Classification: Contemporary art

Credit Line: Museum purchase with funds provided by Meredith and Brother Rutter and Joseph T. Waldo

Object number: 2015.1

Not on view

DescriptionThe Hybridization Machine is one of three components of the ChimaTEK installation. The Hybridization Machine incorporates a highly decorated skull, placed above the metal armature displaying a mannequin, whose torso is replaced by a video monitor. The torso monitor illustrates hand-drawn colorful images “mixing” the plant and post-human. The headset on the mannequin is wrapped with aluminum foil and has a sculptural textile made of lighter and darker blue phalanges around the ear. Adjacent to the head is another video monitor that shows the administrator/mixologist at work. The mannequin is dressed in a white unitard and an embellished leg-dressing.

Metal fabricated by Jay Roth. Musical score by DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid, videography by Rachel Lears, acting by Duhirwe Rushemeza, animation by Nicholas Tuinstra, editing by Tyler Henry, and consulting by Ron Eglash.

Exhibition History"The Shadows Took Shape," Studio Museum, Harlem, NY, November 14, 2013 - March 9, 2014.
"In the Box: Saya Woolfalk: ChimaTEK Life Products," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, November 20, 2014 - May 31, 2015.

Label textSaya Woolfalk
American, b. Japan 1979

Hybridization Machine, 2013
Mixed media

Museum purchase with funds provided by Meredith and Brother Rutter and Joseph T. Waldo 2015.1

Provenance Purchased from the artist via Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY, by Chrysler Museum of Art, March 2015.