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Common Medical Objects for Ephemeral Bodies

How can we generate images and sound based on or from the body that inspire an ethereal, multifaceted view of us as creatures who consist of blood, bones, and bile as well as intuition, altruism, and ingenuity?  For myself, embodiment is not only acknowledging the physical body, but the unquantifiable and unseeable attributes that define our humanity. Might our humanity be emboldened through the altering and subverting of the tools used to diagnose our physical selves?  Medical tests want to quantify me, to dose me, and I willingly want them to do so if that means momentary relief.  But to recreate these tools is to make them see me as unquantifiable and to imagine, if only for a moment, these tools as acknowledging all the complexities that exist beneath my skin.

Seeing/Looking (2021)

The participant is invited to see theirself in new ways by using a tool typically meant to look at body parts inaccessible to the naked eye.  The crystalline alteration of the live camera enables the user to see their body as containing both literal and figurative multiplicities, suggesting there is not merely an internal and external body, but an unseeable, unquantifiable sapience oscillating between the two, guiding our intuition.

Vital Touch (2021)

The gentle touch of the participant affects the immateriality of the delicate light forms before them, a representation of their intuition.  Before interacting with the table, the participant is to imagine theirself resting on the table.

Intuitive X-Ray (202x)

These six, black and white, transparent prints are meditations on visualizing my intuition, when it pushes me to recognize what exists beneath the skin– what is vulnerable, and what is ultimately ephemeral.

Tricardium (2021)

Users must touch the circular chest piece to trigger the intimate sounds of three hearts beating– sounds that recognize life.  Through this action the participants may understand their innate power to receive messages from their bodies through touch and communal listening.

lindsay d’andelet

Common Medical Objects for Ephemeral Bodies

How can we generate images and sound based on or from the body that inspire an ethereal, multifaceted view of us as creatures who consist of blood, bones, and bile as well as intuition, altruism, and ingenuity?  For myself, embodiment is not only acknowledging the physical body, but the unquantifiable and unseeable attributes that define our humanity. Might our humanity be emboldened through the altering and subverting of the tools used to diagnose our physical selves?  Medical tests want to quantify me, to dose me, and I willingly want them to do so if that means momentary relief.  But to recreate these tools is to make them see me as unquantifiable and to imagine, if only for a moment, these tools as acknowledging all the complexities that exist beneath my skin.

Seeing/Looking (2021)

The participant is invited to see theirself in new ways by using a tool typically meant to look at body parts inaccessible to the naked eye.  The crystalline alteration of the live camera enables the user to see their body as containing both literal and figurative multiplicities, suggesting there is not merely an internal and external body, but an unseeable, unquantifiable sapience oscillating between the two, guiding our intuition.

Vital Touch (2021)

The gentle touch of the participant affects the immateriality of the delicate light forms before them, a representation of their intuition.  Before interacting with the table, the participant is to imagine theirself resting on the table.

Intuitive X-Ray (202x)

These six, black and white, transparent prints are meditations on visualizing my intuition, when it pushes me to recognize what exists beneath the skin– what is vulnerable, and what is ultimately ephemeral.

Tricardium (2021)

Users must touch the circular chest piece to trigger the intimate sounds of three hearts beating– sounds that recognize life.  Through this action the participants may understand their innate power to receive messages from their bodies through touch and communal listening.