werde los, Funktion, drucklos
[infected, as not] : infection room + urban project — in development
The [infected, as not] project introduces a new figure, an ephemeral urban border crosser, an infected being, into the grey zone of the human-animal distinction. The [infected, as not] are creatures that intensify the zone of indistinction between human and non-human, that are human by virtue of their non-humaneness. More precisely, the [infected, as not] are humans who give testimony to the non-human with simple non-verbal gestures and means in daily situations. For a short period of time each of these figures suddenly shows unknown body gestures or singular movements, savage imaginations, or animal like behavior.
The project [infected, as not] poses questions regarding the relation between human and animal, essentially concerning the animal as the immanent other of the human. Is the human anything else than animal, anything more than a faceless, subjectless being?
The [infected, as not] are temporarily deserting the community of linguistic beings, immediate gestures of becoming animal in urban surroundings, and risking themselves in entering indefiniteness. The ephemeral experiences and actuali- zations of the [infected, as not] cannot be documented and represented in insightful ways. The boundary between parti- cipant and audience are blurred, the participants become contagious, the audience infected. Are these effects reversible?
knowbotic research receives Werkbeitrag für Digitale Kultur, Basel 2010
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