Deconstruction of the beauty from the art
“The personal is political” wrote Kate Millet in 1970 while discussing the identity of the bodies.
The body in my work is the cornerstone, a body mainstreamed by cultural and social norms. The main objective of my works, which are conceptually connected, is to investigate through sculptural and technological processes the system of symbols that relate to the system of power. I attempt to deconstruct these symbols in order to raise a series of questions and reflections that relate body and symbol, subject and image, organism and identity, reality-unreality.
A long tradition in art explores the boundaries between machine and organism. This raises questions about what counts as a ‘normal body’, the capabilities and ableism associated with bodies, and technology’s capacity to shape learning processes. These approaches offer a critical examination of the material, philosophical and semiotic boundaries between body, mind, culture, nature and technology – categories that can be hacked, subverted, modified, rewritten and reinvented.
The Kokoro 4748 Manifesto tells the story of the ‘disca’ body’s experience of merging with various machines and the possibilities for negotiation between these categories—scientific, technical and political alike. On this occasion, it presents the Muse headband, which reads brainwaves to construct an audiovisual narrative. This involves subjective systems that interact with a whole array of visible and invisible hardware and software, united in a dynamic, living loop.
Fundamental to this are collaborative design practices, based on the ethics of open source and DIY-DIWO (do-it-yourself, do-it-with-others) methodologies, which open up new paths between artistic experimentation and technological activism.