2022 - current
material
found objects
VR-glasses
Telepresence robotics allow a person to embody a remote robotic avatar. The person observes the environment from the robot’s perspective, which can move around under remote control. The remotely operated body mediates the relationship with the world. If the experience is sufficiently compelling, a perspective shift occurs, where the person controlling the robot feels like the robot body is their body, and they are perceiving and acting in the world from the robot’s point-of-view: they feel "embodied" in the sculpture.
In our version of the telepresence robot, one embodies a folding chair. Participants develop a sense of this new body, discovering new possibilities, vulnerabilities, and desires. Like the beetle in Kafka’s Metamorphosis, the human characters slowly start to become their new bodies and will experience being part of the same private world as the inhuman characters around them.
This project was co-produced by V2_ Lab for Unstable Media.
A choreographic text was written in collaboration with Marta Wörmer to lead the participant through the experience.
Location:
Meta.Morf 2024
Trøndelag Senter for Samtidskunst
Trondheim, NO
Pictures by Juliane Schütz
V2_ Summer Sessions Pop Up Show
POSTCITY, Ars Electronica 2023
Linz, AT