Chase Young

Time & Heat; Collapse

Terraforming II is a kinetic sculpture concerned with collapse. Using passive sensing, the piece responds to live, site-specific data. The work is durational; an individual’s experience is dependent upon epochal position. It is serene, or, it is violent.

Chase Young is an American multidisciplinary artist (b. 1999). His work is largely concerned with the built and natural environment, American politics, and speculative futures; working predominately with conceptual sculpture, durational installation, and investigative video. He has committed himself to watching movies and reading vigorously, having been convinced that is the only way to become a more adequate artist—it’s been said that this strategy is “either working or it is not”. Aside from his independent practice, Young is one-half of the Art & Design project Black Helmut, where he designs objects and [REDACTED].