ORGANISM 1 / Animalis

Video and sound installation | 16 min/loop, stereo | 2008

 

Film still

With “ORGANISM 1 / Animalis” I created an artificial organism. Endlessly rotating and breathing regularly, it ingests food and excretes. Its body has no limbs, bones, sensory organs, sexual organs, no head or brain, and no thoughts. It exists solely for the purpose of self-preservation.
Methods exist in alternative medicine to measure the energy states of organs and parts of the body and then visualize these energy states in curves. The data for my organs were transformed into sequences of sounds that accompany the movements of the organism acoustically.

Notation of the measured energetic constitution of the organs
Notation of the measured energetic constitution of the organs