AUTOTOMIE
die erste Wunde
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.
DATES
“The First Wound” is the first part of the trilogy AUTOTOMY, presented as a video installation. The work 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.
Concept & Artistic Direction
Post-Organic Bauplan
PERFORMERS
Vesper
Josefina Maro
Salvador Marino
Choreography
Josefina Maro
Design and Development of Robotic Prostheses
Costumes & scenography
LIVE SOUND
GRAPHIC DESIGN
AUTOTOMIE: die erste Wunde produced by Post-Organic Bauplan in collaboration with Vesper. Funded by Kulturamt Stadt Leipzig.
