What's it like to be, and not participate?
A Hypersurface is half skin, half body, and half lack of skin/body. That's too many halves for one surface to contain. It ruptures under pressure, freezes as it's being noticed, never really makes up its mind- that's too much for one surface to handle. But a Hypersurface doesn't care. Just like networked assemblages, prostheticized media and (in/)organic continuums, Hypersurfaces work through entanglement- the human mixes together with the non-human, and activity mixes together with passivity. Technologies usually expand our sensual fields and agentic properties. However, paying attention to non-humans requires a certain passivity. Paradoxically, being passive opens up new potentialities for activity. This is a guide for being passive; 10 different types of absences; passivity categorized: 1. Giving space 2. Mirroring 3. Being blurry/ confused 5. A foggy presence and/or being somewhere else 6. Seeking convenience 7. Relying on something/someone else 8. Sitting down 9. Dissociating 10. Going home Virtual Reality experience exhibited in Vilnius, Lithuania and Oslo, Norway. |
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