Skin

This video excerpt is part of the on-going project "On Ducks, Turks & the Apocalypse" that also works as a standalone sci-fi poem. The project, titled in reference to famous 17th century automata as the Digestive Duck and the Mechanical Turk, revolves around the emergence of "mechanized" subjectivity, inextricably linked to Modernity's central narratives. Contrary to many past and present techno-scientific views that often reduce intelligence to abstract mathematical properties, the project focuses on the materiality of information and cognition, looking at human memory and consciousness as emergent properties deeply intertwined with the emotional qualities that a suffering living organism experiences.


Skin (isolated text):


This magic moment
Reflections glimmering in the dark
Her soft soft skin caressed by the breeze

She approached slowly toward the surface
Her heartbeat increasing rapidly
Was it really possible to withstand such beauty?
She bent over slowly to reach those perfect lips
It was all hers
Only in the final split seconds of the fall
She did truly understand
That what she took for a window
Was actually a mirror
The screen digested her instantly
No pain
No loss
Her mascara was later found on the grass
by some ants
It remained there for centuries