AUTOTOMY is a defensive strategy, a characteristic behavior of certain animals, consisting of voluntarily detaching parts of their own body in order to escape a predator.How far are we from being able to choose which parts of the body belong to us?What does it mean to belong to a body?Which possibilities of change appear when we don't trust in the organic limits?We live in a society that systematically isolates and discards sick, unproductive, broken, deformed bodies.Are we just flesh trapped in a bio-political program?Sick, unproductive, broken, deformed.I need to escape from the fixed forms.I need to tear my skin to produce a tear in the order.
"Die erste Wunde" is the first part of the trilogy AUTOTOMY, presented as a video installation."Die erste Wunde" proposes to investigate the intimacy of exploring for the very first moments the interaction with robotics prosthetics.The installation consists of being displayed in 6 screens, inside a dark space creating an enveloping and intimate space, where viewers can be in complicity with the video.Music is generated in real time and each screen dates a random fragment of the video performance, generating a new route for each viewer.
Previous Dates
24.10.20
BSMNT Gallery, Spinnerei
Leipzig, Germany
Concept & Direction
Post-Organic Baupan: Josefina Maro & Salvador Marino
