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The migratation of the body? Since the distribution of the internet in the 80s in the public space and the upcoming of social networks with their work
in Net Art I was involved into the problem of human bodies within their physical environment interacting with the net space. Technological inventions and
their availability in everyday life and social platforms let the world become the "global village" of an all-at-onceness, everything is happening everywhere
at the same time, but as a network of data.
Until now, it is impossible for the human body to transgress time and space. It's impossible to go into the virtual space - it's impossible to migrate. One possibility focusing the representation of the physical presence of the human body is picturing bodies in interaction with their environment freezing their motion in the moment. The photo-based installation Daily Game shows those icons of women in motion within their everyday life in public space. The snapshots were captured during a residency in Canada. To explore different living spaces as possible to capture different cultural incorporations, I chosen various public spaces: from small villages up to the multicultural city of Toronto in Canada, one of the world greatest immigration countries. After having taken the snapshots of course I informed the participants and told them about the art project, asked for their agreement of participation and explored individual social data. The art space brought together the snapshots of different public spaces and mixed them "artificially". In addition the varying point of view of participants of the installation varied the relations of the different living spaces. It mixed up representation and presence of human bodies in their cultural corporations: the photography is just a medial representation of bodily lives. It's cultural positioning can be done by will. But, bodies and their ego are "made" by their cultural lives. To focus on the migration of bodies I varied the relations of the observing and the cultural incorporated bodies: I did Daily Game as some kind of migrant in Canada (2001) and Alltägliches Spiel (Daily Game) in the years 2006/7, in the town of my youth, in Kapfenberg (Styria/AT). This is why I do this description in form of an ego-narration to point out the systematic variation of the bodily to be perceived bodyness both abroad and at home. Doris Jauk-Hinz < back |
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