This evening LIVE:RESPONSE, the transmediale.11 Performance programme, presents two extraordinary performances that both, in different ways, hack the normal state of the human body. For INJECT Herman Kolgen has exposed his body quite extremely to the impact of water and a lack of oxygen, while, with Face Visualizer: Instrument and Copy, Daito Manabe has created a ‘face instrument’ by applying small electroshocks to people’s faces making them move in synch with music.
INJECTHerman Kolgen (ca)
A human body is injected in a cistern. Over the course of 45 minutes, the pressure of the liquid exerts upon him multiple neurosensorial transformations. From his epidermal fiber to his nervous system, he...
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