Nothing truly stays dead anymore, everything is reanimated and brought back from the grave, including the human body; here life is hacked together in the garage from an assortment of human organs, gaffer tape, grinding motors and electricity. These newly reanimated, mutant organs have no purpose and function; it is mutation for its own sake, the birth of a new hybrid species, part human, and in some cases part monkey.
Mary Shelley meets zombie apocalypse or perhaps the pathology of a serial killer. Workshop of filthy creation is also about the reactivation of a new kind of body, and the new disturbing possibilities of what the human body could be. So amongst the viscera and gore, there is a weird sense of twisted and ugly potential here, of new possibilities of the future human body.
Ian Haig works at the intersection of visual arts and media arts. His work explores the strangeness of everyday reality and focuses on the themes of the human body, devolution, abjection, transformation and psychopathology, often seen through the lens of low cultural forms.