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A RESULT OF AN ARTISTIC RESEARCH ON MECHANISMS OF SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE
02.05-03.01.2022Erratum Berlin
Berlin, Germany
FIRST HIT
The exhibition is a study of symbolic violence as it manifests quietly in the fabric of our emotional and social lives. Through robotic systems and interactive installations, Franco Palioff constructs a space where the boundaries between observer, participant, and accomplice dissolve. The artworks are driven by real-time emotional data gathered from visitors by The Empathy & Moral Seeker, a roaming robotic figure that reads the emotional temperature of the room and triggers actions in response to collective states of joy, indifference, anger, or sadness.
One installation explores the entangled roles of dominance, submission, and silent complicity exposing how violence often depends not only on the aggressor, but on those who look away. The second delves into the closed circuits of violence, play, and addiction, drawing on behavioral studies and the metaphor of lab rats caught in a gamified loop of stimulus and reward.
Together, the works form an uneasy choreography of reaction and consequence, calling attention to how emotions are weaponized, suppressed, or shared in a hyper-connected world. Visitors are invited to question their own emotional responses, their ethical positions, and the often invisible systems they inhabit.