Support Structure Sculpture

2024  

Single Channel Video, 3D printing, ABS plastics, generative AI

326*89*107 (cm), 46m 12s

The work comes from the technical characteristics of laminated (FDM) printing in 3D printing technology and rethinks the concept of sculpture and its significance as a monument with 3D printing technology. The color of the monument and the material, and only the support of the monument, reflects not only the giant statue, the supports, scaffolds, and structures that need to be erected during the construction of the building, but also the political relationship between the sculpture and the monument and the society.

"Support Sculpture - JKS" is a support material sculpture of the first bronze statue of Chiang Kai-shek in Taiwan made by Tian-Sheng Pu, the video content expounds the concept of 3D printing technology, monument and anti-monument, memory and anti-memory, archival storage and artificial memory, and tries to think about the state of memory composed of technology in contemporary life.

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