2019, Copper / Steel / Plaster / Wood / Plastic / Glass
Collaboration between Daniel Grazi, Lukas Strobel, Clara Schweers, Sophie Bernauer, Jule Meinecke & Fabian Faylona
The setup screens the values of pulse and breath, two essential mechanisms that run the human body. These give insights of the individual and its inner inner processes. It then encripts them within the controls of two motors, that manipulate the ceramics flow of an automated throwing wheel. This way aspects of identity get inscribed within the unique patterns that form the resulting artefact.
Some time has passed since humans learned to extend their physical abilities with the help of sticks and stones a few thousand years ago. Today, we find ourselves in a world that is shaped by nothing more than man and its tools.
But has not mankind itself also been shaped by those tools?
Starting from the hands, we have subsequently augmented our legs – for nothing else is the wheel – and in the meantime we have arrived at the point where not only our speech and our vision, but also our thinking, indeed our entire person is augmented all around.
Anyone who looks at this shell of bodily additions – this technological exoskeleton from an outsiders perspective, cannot help but ask whether, and if so, what kind of person is at the core of this cocoon, whether it can still separate itself from its shell at all or whether the two have grown to be a unity.
