Domestic League

2026

Domestic League is an interactive installation in which the structure of football — field, teams, goals and rules — is displaced into the domestic environment and entrusted to autonomous machines. The field becomes a Persian carpet. The players are robotic vacuum cleaners, visually transformed into opposing teams. Devices originally designed for cleaning and repetition are reassigned to competition, moving without strategy or awareness. The match emerges through collisions, trajectories and chance. Each encounter follows one simple rule: first goal wins. The artist defines the system but cannot control its outcome. What appears to be strategy is often randomness interpreted by the spectator, revealing our instinct to project intention, rivalry and narrative onto autonomous behavior. The