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Aesthetic
Body
Uroš Korenčan
Excerpts
from Maska, Magazine for scenic arts
num. 3, 1999, page 87, 89 |
Overturnment
/ Nuclear Body is clear-cut representation of body dematerialization
through the processes of medical scanning.
What happens is actually digitalization of bio systems in
the artist's body (for instance nervous system, bone structure,
veins and arteries...), this bio data is later combined through
procedures of computer manipulation. Through this process
a new information entity is created, one, that contains all
bio data of human (artists) body at specific moment of taking
samples. In informational sense whole transformation process
creates new body - virtual body.
Process itself - of collecting needed data, is shown to us
in the 7 minutes long video. The climax of it is injection
of radioactive isotopes -this, dissolved and distributed in
the body systems, are the real transfer of picture, that can
be seen with assistance of medical gears and equipment.
So by undertaking the tests artist confronted classical body
art form through artistic process and the exhibited product
contains only body in mediated form, artist doesn't appear
live in front of us.
If the thing we observe on video can be called the transcendence
of a body into higher - digital state, the moment of this
"Event" is symbolized with floated passage of Nuclear
Body through the retina of the eye, this is also the end of
video clip.
Bodies breakthrough the retina instructs us to go to the other
space, where this body of a higher state can be observed in
metal chamber. A new body is identical (in sense of information
data) to body of artist, on the day of medical examinations.
All the data collected is changed into image that is materialized
in fluid, untouchable state of fog. In creating his eternal
youth image artist had free hands, so he was able to point
out all aesthetic elements. Therefor we can say, that virtual
body is mainly aesthetic body, because relation body - machine
peels out mainly aesthetic components.
In our quest for body that would be free and independent from
natural laws, that would be eternal and without weight, Nuclear
Body seems to be on the right path.
In the framework of installation it lives its short cyclic
life, of course, cyclic for us. To prove us that it's still
there, that it didn't escape somewhere else, that it's not
doing something, we didn't plan it to.
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