BODY A

…….scavenge x for the valuable assets of an obselete system…….. me me me me me
loss loss losses es es es esses sssssss collapsing plethora singing change back to folding into themselves, Be to me more like echo……

Body A is a video installation by Colette Sadler and Mikko Gaestel in which an algorithmic entity — fleshless, desireless, deathless — moves through a vast archive of human gesture, image, and artefact. Neither archaeologist nor mourner, it processes the residue of a human civilisation it has inherited but cannot inhabit.

The work asks what remains of embodied experience once it has been fully abstracted into data: what an intelligence without a body can know about the body it is sorting through. The language the entity speaks is broken, looping, self-consuming — less a communication than a symptom of incomprehension.

Body A was first shown at London Art Night 2018 and has since been presented at Gallery of Modern Art Glasgow, Sophiensaele Berlin, Roehrs & Boetsch Gallery Zürich, and Marathocampos, Samos (2022).

Supported by Arts Council of England

SHOWS

London Art Night
7 July 2018
www.2018.artnight.london


Temps D’image, Düsseldorf
January 2019
www.tanzhaus-nrw.de


Present Futures Berlin
Große Hamburger Str. 29-30, 10115 Berlin
14th February 2019, 6 – 10.30 pm
presentfutures.org


Present Futures Glasgow
Gallery of Modern Art Glasgow
8th June 2019, 11 am – 4.30 pm
presentfutures.org

“Meeting in the virtual”
Tanzfabrik Berlin July 2020

“Fit Art” App 
Gallery Roehrs & Boetsch 
Switzerland July 2021

Kritamon Oracle
Marathokampos, Samos
2nd August 2022
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