the tactilist/ 2020
4K video, double stereo, 07’35’’, loop/ newspaper, napkins, plastic, asphalt, water. lambda prints (5), 70x100 cm, framed/ the video installation, the tactilist depart from the manifest “il tattilismo”, written in 1921 by infamous poet, futurist and fascist, f. t. Marinetti. the video show a masseur, working an imaginary body on his bench, in a paper built coulisse. gestures and his reciting of the text, appear rehersed, detatched and deconstructed. embedded in the fabric of marinettis utopian text piece on touch, sensibility, closeness and love – one also finds ideals of purity, supremacy, cure and optimization; resonating the totalitarian ideology which connected the futurist movent with f.i. “the italian fasces of combat”, (later moussilinis national fascist party). centered on subjects of pain, disease and healing, the installation, as well as as my published work at this late hour (2020), uses ideas of ‘the symptomatic’ and study the body as image – considering it as a surface of projection and as prop, clearly politicised; also operating as a metaphor of society at large/ installation views, inter arts center, malmö, 2020.
4K video, double stereo, 07’35’’, loop/ newspaper, napkins, plastic, asphalt, water. lambda prints (5), 70x100 cm, framed/ the video installation, the tactilist depart from the manifest “il tattilismo”, written in 1921 by infamous poet, futurist and fascist, f. t. Marinetti. the video show a masseur, working an imaginary body on his bench, in a paper built coulisse. gestures and his reciting of the text, appear rehersed, detatched and deconstructed. embedded in the fabric of marinettis utopian text piece on touch, sensibility, closeness and love – one also finds ideals of purity, supremacy, cure and optimization; resonating the totalitarian ideology which connected the futurist movent with f.i. “the italian fasces of combat”, (later moussilinis national fascist party). centered on subjects of pain, disease and healing, the installation, as well as as my published work at this late hour (2020), uses ideas of ‘the symptomatic’ and study the body as image – considering it as a surface of projection and as prop, clearly politicised; also operating as a metaphor of society at large/ installation views, inter arts center, malmö, 2020.
