the tactilist/ 2020/ 4K video, double stereo, 07’35’’, loop/ lambda prints (5), 70x100 cm, framed/ newspaper, napkins, plastic, asphalt, water/ installation views, inter arts center, malmö/ the video installation, The Tactilist and its conjoined publication, AT THIS LATE HOUR (2020), both depart from the manifest “Il Tattilismo”, written in 1921 by infamous poet, futurist and fascist, F. T. Marinetti. The video component show a masseur, working an imaginary body, where gestures, as well as his reciting of the text, appear rehersed, detatched and deconstructed. Embedded in the fabric of Marinettis utopian 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 The National Fascist Party). Centered around subjects of pain, disease and healing, the installation, as well as the published work, 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.
still images from video/ 2020
installation views, inter arts center, black room/ 2020
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