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| Artists A - Z | Artwork A - Z | Key content |
| Audience participation | Social setting | Research process |
| Title: |
| World, Membrane and the Dismembered Body |
| Artist(s): |
| Seiko Mikami |
| Brief description of the work: |
| Interactive installation that used amplified sounds of a person's internal organs as he or she sat in an anechoic chamber (Toop 2004, p. 11). The delay between the body's response and the repetition from outside makes the participant experience a fragmented body. |
| Materials, dimensions, duration: |
| Anechoic chamber, sound equipment, speakers |
| Location (venue & dates, public/ private): |
| First version created in 1997 for the permanent collection of NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC], Tokyo; shown at DEAF(Dutch Electronic Art Festival) 'The Art of the Accident' at V2, Rotterdam, Nov 1998. |
| Audience information (size, mode of participation): |
| One participant at a time could follow the amplified sounds of his or her body. |
| Other information (reviews, collaborators, funders): |
| This artwork features in David Toop's book 'Haunted Weather: Music, Silence, and Memory (2004), Serpent's Tail |
| Floorplan, scheme: |
Installation at DEAF98
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| Visual/ audio-visual reference: |
Installation at ICC Center
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| Key theme(s): |
| Intense engagement with a body; observing externalised internal processes; observing one's awareness of listening |
| Further context: |
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http://archive.v2.nl/V2Video/quicktime/stream320/
 Installation at DEAF98
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