I went to the Kinetic Art Fair today and I actually think it could be very enriching for our project. It can be related with interactive and motion design.

another kinetic art work, unfortunately not on the show, but in the BMW museum in Munich... its just incredible cool

We talked about a boundary. A boundary between inside - outside, mental - physical.
I thought the skin could represent this boundary quiet well.

In the book mentioned before I found the following quote:

The skin remains an encyclopedically resourceful expressive organ, capable of expressing:

self-punishment, self-denial, self-castration and self-destruction [...] exhibitionism and self-pity, auto-eroticism,.....

Salvador Dali - Un chien andalou

PAIN

'Hence pain is the general condition of being alive, a state of sensation,  a sensual monitoring of the body, a care or awareness of its health and its status, an attention to what are sometimes known as 'raw feels'. A pain displays a neurological concept, called proprioception.'

Proprioception is among the body's fundamental senses - it is the body's internal muscular and organic sense of itself.

Pain signifies that mode of awareness that listens to the body and is aware of its feelings - whether that feeling is the low-level muttering of a body in good health or the high pain of illness.

Proprioception names the sensation, or memory, or incipience, of motion.

Robert Vischer can be mentioned in this context as he observed how formal arrangement in works of art elicited muscular and emotional reactions and concluded that we are deceived into attributing those reactions to the object.

This 'Einfuehlung (feeling-in or empathy) is an 'involuntary' act of transference.

Vischer noticed how the body 'swells' when it enters a wide hall and how it 'sways', even in imagination, when it sees wind blowing in a tree. 

Proprioception demonstrates that the body has sensation within and of itself, with only minimal input from the outside world. But empathy reaction can also echo forms and events in the outside world: the swelling elicited by the hall is felt inside my body, not as a force on my body. In conjunction with proprioception, empathy can help us understand how our bodies are partly our own, and partly owned by the object we see.          (p. 24)

Dominance - Submission

Inside Outside

Quotes from the book 'pictures of the body- pain and metamorphosis' by james elkins:

-any cut can be a 'wound door' that allows the spirit to escape. It is normally impolite even to look at the places where the inside of the body becomes visible-the twilight of nostrils, ears, mouths, anuses, vaginas and urethras. The inside is by definition and by nature that which is not seen. p. 109

Last of three classes in general category of pain concerns skin that has been cut open, revealing the flesh beneath. Flesh has a metaphors of liquidity, as if the body is a bag of skin, holding a fluid interior. In general, the invisible inside of the body has been considered too painful to represent. p.29

In the normal functioning of visible bodies, skin separates whatever is visible from the parts of ourselves that are hidden.
...
The inside/outside dichotomy, with its metaphors of public and private life.
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infolding....enfolding
the nature of the pocket becomes a primary concern. Multiple membranes enclose pockets within the body - the hear, the chest, parts of the brain, the joints and there are so many such pockets that it can again begin to appear that it would be adequate to define the body as collection of pockets.
If I turn a sock inside out, then the area that once enclosed my foot now encloses the world, and I have trapped the outside in the inside. p.44

Freud said, the demands of the body become ideas in the mind: the very spot where flesh becomes intelligible, where mute drives become signs. p.1

DAMIEN ORTEGA

DECONSTRUCTED OBJECTS

SELF-DECONSTRUCTION

SLICES

        Ed - Niklas

Tomography - Masochism

KEY POINTS:
     Masochism is ritualistic, emotional, psychological, metaphysical

Tomography is scientific, technological, physical

MENTAL

PHYSICAL

UNSEEN

SEEN

UNCERTAINTY

CERTAINTY

INSIDE

OUTSIDE

TRUSTING

KNOWING

TOMOGRAPHY AS METHOD OF DISCOVERY

CROSSING BOUNDARIES

MEDIUM:

• SCULPTURE: LAYERS, REVEALING INSIDE
• INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION: BEING CONTROLED BY AN OBJECT / CONTROLLING AN OBJECT
• INVADING AN OBJECT/SPACE
• OR BEING INVADED

ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE

THIJS VERBECK

Dutch designer Thijs Verbeck created an alphabet using clothes-pins and skin to create a heterogenous character set. Each letter has its own quality due to the variation in skin and body types, making it hard to predict the final shape. Fleshy skin results in voluptuous characters, while taut skin gives the letterfroms a narrow, imperfect shape.

Sagmeister Aiga Detroit poster

For this lecture poster for the AIGA Detroit we tried to visualize the pain that seems to accompany most of our design projects.
Our intern Martin cut all the type into my skin.
Yes, it did hurt real bad.

Sin

SLAVE-MASTER

SELF-OTHER

POWER-BONDAGE

important statement to consider

http://www.franko-b.com/gallery/g_performance.htm

here some artist research.

An approach to masochism in art is through live performance and body art.

Initial sketchbook research