KALOS (deep inside me)
mirrror, metal, glas, wood and video, 2019/2020
Kaleidoscopical sculptural piece made out of wood structure, mirrors, and steel, in interaction with video. The video was created from MRI images that were taken of my brain before and after the brain surgery I went through in 2018. I merged these images with fractal landscapes I had created digitally. Simulating a journey into one’s mind, I explored the question what consciousness is and the objectifying view that western medicine encourages on the human body , an approach that had just saved my life but ignores much of my (our) subjective experience.
Collaborators: Irene Carbonari
Edge Group exhibition, Charité
Mind Foundation Insight Conference, Charité
Art Base Festival at a former mental asylum, Neustrelitz
Night Embassy Berlin
Micromoon, Berlin
Oped Space, Tokyo
Klack klack klack can you hear me?
I want to get inside you, move you around, get to the matter that makes up your mind. I want to measure you, slice you thin and color you beautifully. Can you see yourself? Can you see yourself seeing? Can you see your brain seeing yourself? What does it tell you? What do I tell you?
Klack klack klack where are you?
Where is your attention, where is your consciousness? I want to get inside you.
Are you just patterns? I can only see a ball, and not even a perfect one.
Klack klack klack I am inside you.
If we cut open the skin of our skull, put a hole in our head and had a look at our brain, what would it tell us about ourselves? If we create more and more precise images of the inside of our head, do they in any way reflect experiences we have of our thoughts, feelings and desires? What do we really see when we look at pictures of our brain? Can they help us to understand this great mystery that we our- selves embody – consciousness? In what way is the anatomy of our brain a mirror of ourselves? Will we in the future be able to understand our mind by looking closely at the mechanisms that guide the interactions of our neurons?