Errant: Pointer
Artist: Josef Szuecs (pronounced SOOCH)
When: September 2025
Media:
Digital image
About:
This body of work mobilizes the idiom of the crude sketch to articulate a speculative anthropology of the posthuman. The semi-robotic figures, named Errants, function not as resolved subjects but as liminal signifiers—diagrammatic traces of a species negotiating its own machinic becoming. Their deliberately awkward lineation resists the teleology of techno-utopian design, foregrounding instead the contingent, performative, and provisional character of human/technology entanglements.
By juxtaposing naïve mark-making with prosthetic and cybernetic motifs, the drawings activate a tension between the childlike and the techno-sublime, between a vernacular of the hand and the logics of automation. The figures are not depictions of perfected cyborgs but iterative “pre-subjects,” prototypes of a future humanity whose ontology remains under revision. In their unresolved, hybrid corporeality, they gesture toward a future that is not yet stabilized but perpetually in the act of being redrawn.
Errant: Pointer
Artist: Josef Szuecs (pronounced SOOCH)
When: September 2025
Media:
Digital image
About:
This body of work mobilizes the idiom of the crude sketch to articulate a speculative anthropology of the posthuman. The semi-robotic figures, named Errants, function not as resolved subjects but as liminal signifiers—diagrammatic traces of a species negotiating its own machinic becoming. Their deliberately awkward lineation resists the teleology of techno-utopian design, foregrounding instead the contingent, performative, and provisional character of human/technology entanglements.
By juxtaposing naïve mark-making with prosthetic and cybernetic motifs, the drawings activate a tension between the childlike and the techno-sublime, between a vernacular of the hand and the logics of automation. The figures are not depictions of perfected cyborgs but iterative “pre-subjects,” prototypes of a future humanity whose ontology remains under revision. In their unresolved, hybrid corporeality, they gesture toward a future that is not yet stabilized but perpetually in the act of being redrawn.