The imperfect body

 The imperfect body

The performer lies naked on a sofa in a small separate room. The visitors enter in the room one by one. An assistant tells the needed information. You receive a mobile phone and you are asked to scan her naked body with the camera. These images are broadcast live on Facebook Live. As individual viewers record on the phone, they are recorded with another camera, those images are projected onto another public screen.

 

Photo Txema Agiriano

The imperfect body

This performance deals with the concepts of body and identity and the phenomenon of self- representation and self-censorship in social networks.It also addresses the change in the historical understanding of the body.The relationship with the world is a relationship of presence in the world, of being in the world, in the sense of belonging to the world, of being possessed by it, in which neither the agent nor the object is posed as such. The degree to which the body is invested in this relationship is, without a doubt, one of the main determinants of the interest and attention involved in it, and the importance - measurable by its duration, intensity, etc. - of the resulting body modifications. (Thing that forgets the intellectualist vision, directly related to the fact that the scholastic universes treat the body and everything related to it, and, in particular, the urgency linked to the satisfaction of needs and physical violence, effective or potential , in such a way that in a way it is out of the game). We learn through the body. The social order is inscribed in the bodies through this permanent, more or less dramatic confrontation, but which always gives a prominent place to affectivity and, more precisely, to affective transactions with the social environment.

Bourdieu, Pierre: Pascalian Meditations, Barcelona, Anagrama, 1999 [1997]BLV ART Teknologia eta Performance.Big Brother is watching SF. The GAFA empire.Through this ubiquitous project, but with the San Francisco neighborhood in Bilbao as its center, the public will unknowingly find a series of thoughtful experimental actions around communication, art and society. International diffusion. Personal social networks, speaking very closely, and also super- powered networks.Surveillance cameras track San Francisco Street. between the Cantalojas bridge and the Tres Pilares square, including the Corazón de María square and the intersections with Bailen, Dos de Mayo, Hernani, Arnotegi, La Cantera, La Laguna, Cantalojas, Conde Mirasol and Aréchaga streets. Currently there are more and more cameras also on the portals.We live in an interconnected world. Social networks detect our location at all times. We make recordings with our mobile devices that we immediately post on the internet. There is no privacy. Meanwhile, increasingly sophisticated computing tools allow us to create parallel worlds based on reality, in which we can navigate. Augmented reality offers us new experiences and information that years ago, to obtain them forced us to a sophisticated search.All this information is part of big data.According to the estimates of the Broadband Commission (2012), by 2020 there will be around 50 billion connected devices in the world. This means that each person will have six devices, all connected. Whose data is shared through that device. What consequences does this global interconnection have for citizens and their privacy? Thanks to technology we approach loved ones and like-minded professionals. This is evidenced by the traffic measurements generated by the devices. 25% of the traffic of smart phones and 40% of tablets corresponds to video, which ranges from playing files on YouTube to video conferences. The key to consolidating the so-called GAFA empire (Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple) as a superpower lies in the fact that they have a lot of the new oil of the 21st century and, in addition, the technology to make it profitable. It's about the data. These companies have in their possession the virtual profiles of their millions of customers, a way to communicate with them (the main service they provide) and a huge amount of additional data (such as their location, consumption habits, interests, etc ...). In addition, they have very powerful technological advantages (such as cloud infrastructures, machine learning algorithms, massive data analysis, cybersecurity systems ...).

BLV ART 2019. Txema Agiriano. RMO Kultur