Ian Haig works across media, from video, sculpture, drawing, technology based media and installation. Haig’s practice refuses to accept that the low and the base level are devoid of value and cultural meaning. His body obsessed themes can be seen throughout a large body of work over the last twenty years. Previous works have looked to the contemporary media sphere and its relationship to the visceral body, the degenerative aspects of pervasive new technologies, to cultural forms of fanaticism and cults, to ideas of attraction and repulsion, body horror and the defamiliarisation of the human body.
ian haig
Anti Ergonomic Hump machine, 2001
Sculpture
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While ergonomics dictate that 'incorrect' use of computers can produce 'adverse' results on the human body, this work looks at the inverse; where the adverse effects of computers on the body can be seen as desirable body modifications, for the user to try and attain.

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