MÁQUINA-HOMEM / CLONE-FIGHTERS

The Man-Machine (Clone-Fighters) project is a stage vehicle/”pilgrimage machine” which was part of the Regular Daytime Event known as Pilgrimage at EXPO 98.
On the verge of the millennium, there is the question of the human limits, of the possibility of human autonomy, not only towards “machines” (in the science fiction common sense which foresees the subjugation of mankind by computers), but also towards the big Machine of human organization in the world and of the world. The double ghost is that of the humanized machine facing the robotized man and the dread of one day not knowing how to distinguish one from the other.
Face to face, as in a mirror, two giant marionettes stage the fight of man against his own image, the terrifying image of being massified, cloned, unrecognized in his own identity. These two men are dressed in an irreprehensible executive suit and tie, being agents of the world they are supposed to lead.
On each side, three actors manipulate the marionettes, dressed as video game fighters (“clone fighters”) and reproducing their artificial movements. Inhumanity is present in the plastic of the breastplates, in the coldness of the gaze, in the aggressiveness of the movements.
They are focused on their task and do not even realize they are being pulled, so they dont contribute to their own progression and can’t prevent it in any way. The Machine becomes, then, a symbol of an involuntary and ineluctable movement: humanity is a twig flowing in a turbulent stream.

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