My Limbo Land. Episode 1. Dream

A simulation inspired by Lyotard's thought experiment on the sun's explosion. Includes: (Body Mocap, conventional 3D techniques and AI assisted transformations.) The Story of an Obsession. I bind my body to the digital and empty body of Jess*. A possible place of existence? I detach familiar daily rituals from time and place them in digital space, discovering it. Bodies engage in relationships mediated by techniques and technologies within a specific cycle of movements but do not inherit necessity. I unfold relationships at the intersection of physical space and mathematical desert. What if the Inhuman remains? “The Inhuman—as the negation of what is considered human, such as the unity of the organic body and soul, the thinking and bodily substance.” The language of the System. The issue is distinguishing knowledge that can or cannot be effectively translated into the System's language, leaving an Unredeemable Remnant. In this situation, bodily rituals covering rational actions no longer represent a problem-solving procedure. They become meaningless artifacts. Aimless flows, not subordinate to efficiency. What in these textures speaks of the possibility of movement? I seek ways for uncertainty to arise. The separation between subject and object blurs. The process defines the limits of control. Defamiliarization through splitting and reduction to numbers. I return to my alien body. * Jess is a three-dimensional “trauma training manikin”, a digital phantom, an inanimate bride. In the world of ideas she is a philosophical zombie.