[-empyre-] Mixed Relations - have we arrived at electronic device yet?

[lotu5]

Yes marc, thanks for bringing up those points. We're definitely inspired by marina and ulay in that their series of relational pieces explored the core of these issues, yet as you point out our subjectivities are different than theirs and so bring a whole different set of questions in. We also see technoolgy as a central issue to be explored, how electronic technologies and technologies which interface with the body expand the boundaries of the subject and complicate relatiionality by adding mediation and by adding other agents into the process.

We both see thhis work in a trajectory of performance, with orlan and stelarc pushing the limits of bodily intefrfaces with technology. Also with lygia clark's relatiional objects, we want to build on that as well, thinking of how performance changes with performative objects and mediated spaces like mixed reality environments.

I think that love can challenge the traditional notion of the subject as autonomous, as opposed to nancys or haraways work on intersubjectivity. As with haraway, im very interested in the question of how we can form new kinds of kinship and love across boundaries including species boundaries and consider how we are always "becoming with" each other and never in isolation

  m

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