Non technological devices

Non technological devices are composite tools made from gleaned natural elements, assembled to mimic the technological devices that populate our daily lives. Between rudimentary productions and science-fiction creations, these objects are as much prolongations of bodies as they are hindrances. Associated with invented artefacts whose use remains to be discovered, they create a fictional universe that functions as a mirror held up to our fantasies of the future.

With this project, the artist wishes to create new desires, to generate images that can be resources for our imaginaries.

How can we show an alternative future in the face of our dreams of a hyper-artificialized and technologized world? Using fiction and play, Azzopardi seeks other ways of imagining augmented lives, creating organic cyborgs whose aim would be to inscribe the body differently in the environment. She uses the poetic diversion of artefacts that are symbols of technical progress to question our relationship with the living and the disappearance of the earthly "resources" used to build the components of our technological objects. Dealing with human intervention in nature, our relationship to technology and the overexploitation of the planet, this research explores other forms of cohabitation with earthly living and opens up avenues of reflection on what could be an iconography of ecological self-defence.

Chloé Azzopardi is part of Münchner Kammerspiele X Der Greif: “Off to Elsewhere”.