Entangled Body Infrastructures
Entangled Body Infrastructures is a performance created in collaboration with Julia Preiß. Distributed across the torso, a combination of chains, printed circuit boards and cables, harnesses the bodies of the two performers. Central piece is a Random-access memory (RAM) located between the shoulder blades. Through an interface in the front of the torso, both performers can interact with the memory by plugging and unplugging cables into a series of jacks. Writing and deleting the memory locations of the RAM over and over again.

In line with the cervical spine, sits a 4-LED display, that reveals the current bit combination, which is temporarily stored on the memory. A monotone rhythm moves the performance ahead and probes the sheer scale of possible writing combinations of an electronic part, that has long be obsolete. Simultaneously the performance hints towards a field of power, trust, and entanglement between the human body and technological infrastructures.

The writing process reveals the merely infinite capacity of combinations of the 64-bit RAM. Assuming that each bit combination takes 7 seconds to be completed, the total duration of the performance is 22.239.998.160 centuries.

Printed Circuit Boards - 3.5mm mono jacks and cables - LEDs - 74189 64-bit RAM - 74LS04 Hex inverter - JST connectors

Special thanks to:
Eno de Wit Photos

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