Artists’ Statement:
The multimedia installation documented below explores the anthropological and technocultural analysis that follows the changeability of the tangibility of the terminal body subject, using David Le Breton in Farewell to the Body (2003). The urban-corporeal technoscientific imaginary is explored in complete decay, precariousness and imperfection, in which ‘Post-flesh’ Kroker (1994) and ‘Interzone’ (ibid) bodies. resting biomechanical objects maintain multiple connections in an expanding world in the third millennium. We explore the concepts of obsolescence and accident presented by William Lurtz at the Association for Strategic Accidents of 1990. We present in parallel ideas of “drug design” biochemical pharmacologies that allow new perception schemes that deal with ideas about virtual reality. As will be demonstrated in the course of the argument, there is a direct relationship between the expansion of VR technology immersion systems treated as virology and infection on the human senses, which generate the side effect of the immobilised body that is the result of a consensual hallucination (ibid) and desires to escape the body.
Keywords: anthropology, technoculture, narcotic-design, body, virtual reality
Voice: Computer generated.
Note: For best viewing, use full-screen mode; video is at 720p, 16:9
Biography
Hugo Paquete: Author, Research grant, (FCT) Ph.D. student: Ph.D. in Digital Media Arts. Aberta University and University of Algarve, Portugal. Master in Contemporary Artistic Creation, (UA, 2014). (CIAC): Center for Research in Arts and Communication, University of Algarve, Aberta University. And in the (ID+ [UA /DeCA) Group: Praxis and Poiesis: from arts practice towards art theory, Research Institute for Design, Media and Culture, Aveiro University.
Ana Santos: Co-author, Artist and Ph.D. student: ISCTE-IUL Department of Anthropology, Lisbon, Portugal. Researcher at CRIA-Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia. Master in Contemporary Arts (FBAUP).
Info: Integrated in the project CreArt (Network of Cities for Artistic Creation) and European cultural fund as a resident artist in Artkomas: Kauno kūrybinių industrijų centras. Kaunas, Lithuania.
© 2022 Hugo Paquete and Ana Santos, used by permission
Technoculture Volume 12 (2022)
