A Robot Attempts To Eat A Chicken Nugget At Firstdraft

By Niall Roeder

Some art employs realism and represents its subject truthfully. There is art that works varying degrees of the abstract, borrowing and bending reality in doing so. Somewhere at the end of the spectrum is the hyper bizarre installation art found in A Robot Attempts to Eat a Chicken Nugget at Riley St gallery, Firstdraft.

UNSW Art & Design students and graduates Tully Arnot, Josh Harle, Jason Phu and Louise Zhang are the brains behind the curious exhibit. Their strange and intriguing works delve into the relationship between humans and technology and are presented in a grotesque and messy way. As the brief states, “Discharge everywhere. This is an exhibition revelling in the mess our creations make”.

From the vibrating cheeseburger to the robot that actually eats the chicken nugget you place on the table for it, this exhibition sure is something different. It’s only a small display, but you’re guaranteed to see something you’ve never seen before, whether it’s the ambiguity of the blob, the caricaturing of inanimate objects or anthropomorphising the actions of robots.

“A Robot Attempts to Eat a Chicken Nugget is an exhibition that signals to our affective relationship towards sitting around and cuddling up to too much junk food. However, this is not an exhibition that poses this as a question, so much as it is a product of it.”

A Robot Attempts to Eat a Chicken Nugget

Entry FREE (as are all the Firstdraft exhibitions)