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Metal, resin, motor, mirror, LED lights, water, PVC, FRP
1.3m*1.5m*1.5m
Performance running time: approx. 15 minutes
Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul
Sponsored by Seoul Arts Center
2024
photography by Jeong jeephil, Kim Yoona
Inside the Floating Capsule, your body floats weightlessly in skin-temperature (37°C) water. The floating body is free from forces such as gravity and all physical sensations such as touch, sight, and hearing. As you adapt to the substance outside of your body - water - your body attempts to reset and reactivate your mental energy. The body, which is more than half made up of water and liquids, encounters water and experiments with the boundaries between inside and outside the body, creating a sense of liberation. At the same time, the spine, muscles, and nerves in the body relax, and the brain falls into a deep state of sleep. As your body and mind relax and reach a state of ease, you feel a sense of infinite space, and soon you lose all awareness of floating.
Over the course of evolution, the body has left traces of missing organs in the body. These missing parts, called “vestigial organs,” are hidden in various parts of the body, such as the ears, mouth, arms, and hips. The floating capsule starts by questioning what sensations and movements these organs would have if they were alive. In doing so, it explores the relationship between new sensations, human structure, and movement that resets and resynchronizes the human body's senses. What do the erased vestigial organs and their vestigial sites in the body mean? ‘Floating Bodily Particles’ seeks to discover new spaces from the organs that have disappeared deep beneath the surface of the body, the skin that is connected by fluid flow, and the materials it is in contact with.
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