Thinking Through The Body
I have been exploring banal urban and suburban experience of leisure, well-being, and measurement of self-heart rate. The installation describes work starting with personal anecdotes and minor problems expanding into how city infrastructure and wider global systems of politics and capital, as expressed through technology. The experimental sound of pulse width modulation of heart rate monitor has constructed a digital synthesis and the 63bpm denominators triggered as a healthy heart rate of the human body. The primary interest lie on concentration on medical space and emphasis on the installation as a distraction. The larger theme of care into a question of health dealing more openly with fitness, bodily rhythm, the routines of daily life and so on. As well as fitness regimes and importance of the pattern of prayer throughout the day as a contributory factor in the maintenance of mental and physical equilibrium. The print out of my heart beat, a pulse that signifies a good level of fitness, the gif of my executing a 360 degree spinning jump, and the rotating speaker with its soldered on piece of bent rod reminiscent of viral cilia cell all combined to make a unexpected reality, somewhere disconcerting , but ultimately welcoming installation. The space and the things in it made one feel comfortable to be there. What is significant here is that it is one way in which I have been making a direct connection with things that give pleasure. The visual pleasure to be found in a flash of colour, a clean line , or a precisely placed object resonated with the sense of the body's pulse and rhythm, and with the feeling of its physical potential. It seems that the environments, I have construct speak to those very basic question we all ask of ourselves: who am I , what am I , where am I ? and the also to some supplementary question: who is here with me, how are we interconnected, how can we help each other if and when we need it ? In light of question such as these the medical and clinical tone, I have been drawn to provide less an anxiety about pathology. More a general sense of care, both mental and physical care for others and for oneself, care for one's situation and environment.
