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Mutabor

Interactive Video-Installation, Performance, 6 C-Prints 70x41cm,

2005, Betonsalon Paris

Presentation/Lecture: STIGMATA
resonance005, network meeting
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Thermographic pictures of human body deformations.
Due to the temperature-scale at the bottom of the picture, the images of these deformated people seem real.
The question of authentity of the displayed images arises. The use of apparently unbetrayable measuring instruments for documenting irregularities persuades us to believe what we see. But on the other hand there are distrust, doubt and suspicion.
Fantasy, curiosity and the fascination of the unknown - the different - the uncanny (S. Freud) are being stimulated.

 

People who are kind of different to the mass tend to hide their specialities in favour of not being conspicuous. But who ist hiding his or her  differences? Are they detectable? Who is living among us and are we able to realise it, if we are talking to a special person?
Hide and Seek with thermographic imaging
equipment.
The thermographic camera uses the reflections of infrared emittions to draw a picture of the available scale of temperature.
An actor prepaired with infrared emitters underneath his clothes moved among the visitors of the exhibition. Soon people realised, that there was a person, whose image on the thermographic projection-screen differed from theirs.
They started looking for the person to identify who was attached to the revealing signs.

 

 

Gargoyle Extensions
Interaktive Video-Installation, Performance, 6 C-Prints 70x41cm,

2005, Betonsalon Paris

Lecture on Stigmata and Mutabor at the resonance005 network meeting, 2005

MUTABOR

In der Ausstellung sind thermografische
Abbildungen von Deformationen am
menschlichen Körper zu sehen.
Durch die Temperatur-Skala am unteren Rand des Bildes wird verdeutlicht, dass die ungewöhnlichen Erweiterungen, objektiv gesehen, Teile des Körpers sind.
Es stellt sich die Frage nach der Authentizität der Motive. Durch die Verwendung von scheinbar untäu-schbaren Messgeräten ist man versucht zu glauben, was man sieht. Auf der anderen Seite steht die Ungewissheit und das Misstrauen und die Frage nach dem “wie und was”.

Die Phantasie, die natürliche Neugier und die Faszination des Unbekannten, des Andersartigen und des Unheimlichen (the uncanny - freud) werden stimuliert.