Hell Yeah We Fuck Die

It is named for the five most common words in the English language pop charts of the 2010s. It features two video works. One, presented over three screens, homes in on robots used to save people in disaster zones. What we see, however, are scientists appearing to physically abuse their androids, in the name of training. The metallic backdrop becomes a sort of militarised athletics ground.

Joe Lloyd, Studio International, 2026-02-12 · read the full text

Drywall framing and aluminum sheeting divide the installation into two parts, each containing a short, looping video. The larger of the two sections features a hypercut of footage gathered from the internet of robot technology testing labs in which humanoid machines are subjected to physical abuse by their makers in the name of technological progress. The second video, Robots Today, shown on a single monitor in the smaller area of the installation, is set in Diyarbakır, the unofficial capital of Turkish or Northern Kurdistan. It recounts personal stories from the region as well as the story of Ismail al-Jazari, a twelfth-century engineer whose mechanical inventions presaged modern robotics.

Nando Alvarez-Perez, Cornelia Magazine, 2019-12-09 · read the full text

The ambitious exhibition begins with the installation Hell Yeah Fuck We Die (2016). Based on the five most common words used in English-language song titles from the previous decade (hell, yeah, we, fuck, and die), the display combines three video screens with robot sculptures, neon signs and hammering techno sound. The videos feature a compilation of images from robot technology testing labs collected from various online sources, in which humanoid robots are subject to abuse, both actual and simulated.

Dr Jana J Haeckel, 1854 / British Journal of Photography, 2021-07-01 · read the full text