The Blob

2017
Web Performance
The New Centre for Research and Practice

The web performance was presented during a course provided by The New Centre for Research and Practice. The course integrative Object II: Art Practice & Philo-Fiction was facilitated by Alice Rekab and Anne-Francoise Schmid. In the light of creating a generic space of art and philosophy i presented a digital performance of a “screen in a dark room to receive the species, that is not uniform but is diversified by folds representing items of innate knowledge; and, what is more, that this screen or membrane, being under tension, has a kind of elasticity to active force.” The screen is a connected membrane of live footage and a superimposed voice controlled animation. The ‘object’ exposed within the performance starts with a line drawn live between two dots on paper, that permeates a dimension and becomes digital. The line continues through several transformations – transubstantiations – i.e. triangle, Platonic Solid (Icosahedron), to eventually end up as a pulsating blob on screen, perturbed by an invisible cylinder.