Installation, 7 min video-art, sculpture
«How can you describe the weirdness that is not assembled enough?» — interdisciplinary project, which draws on the study of magic, of oriental religions, and of technologies to reconsider the realm of the sensorial. Skidan’s project ponders the interrelations between changing technologies and corporality as well as their consequences: the instability of the body, the erasure of the notion of a ‘norm’, the dilution of identity, the alienation of the virtual body – the avatar – from its physical counterpart.
The video centres on the multiplying avatars of a cybershaman, whose body is used as a form of incantation. The succession of avatars seeks to somehow capture the instability of ‘reality’, as do the flitting movements between a real, natural landscape and a constructed, imaginary meta-landscape of impossible worlds. The video lends both landscape and body an almost sculptural quality, and brings out their equality as actors. Gradually, the cybershaman’s movement patterns change; the human body adapts to its environment — one that is both natural and constructed. An emerging, hybrid identity arises from Skidan’s attempt to capture the elusive sensation of postcontemporaneity.