Artificial Insurance, a paranoid normal triptych

Artificial Insurance is an installation featuring work by visual and performance artist Justin Lander that will be on view this spring in ArtYard’s VSG (Very Small Galleries), three miniature installations hidden in our walls, visible through small peepholes.

Artificial Intelligence is an insurance policy that protects us from difficulties in life. It is a golem that makes life easy by outsourcing artificial solutions. We absorb this artificiality, and it becomes real, making us artificial.

Artificial Insurance, a paranoid normal triptych, uses found objects, papier-mâché, and wire sculptures to create snapshots of a Dadaist puppet show — dream images from the subconscious, sent as a reminder that, to insure full humanity, art cannot be a product of data mining.

The scenes in this triptych do not instruct, argue, or advocate a point of view, and they reject the need for everything to make sense, provide answers or sell a product. They exist in opposition to artificially generated images, video, writing and music, in that they are tiny, cheap, localized, and unable to go viral.

Justin Lander uses found and devised objects to create static and dynamic artistic creations. Working in a variety of forms, such as puppetry, sculpture, and graphic design, Lander attempts to amuse and provoke both regular patrons of the arts and those who try to avoid them.