Trans-E: The Body and Technologies

Domingues, D.
Source: Domingues, D.

Diana Domingues

Trans-E: The Body and Technologies ,
Co-workers & Funding
Production and direction: Diana Domingues
Alexandra Comerlatto Mugnol
VT EDITING: Hermes Fernando Lôra
Marco Orlandi
CAMERA: Diana Domingues
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: UCS, CNPq, FAPERGS, PHILCO TRANSPORTADORA TRESMAIENSE , SOLUS SOUND AND LIGHTING, METALFORM, ROYAL ARQUITETURA , DERMOBEL, APISUL SEGUROS , TANNER CAXIENSE
Documents
  • 1-Bio-Biblion2
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  • 3-influxus
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  • 4-ceia2
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  • 4-ceia
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  • 2-A-fetus
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  • 2-A-fetus
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  • 4-ceia3
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  • 2-A-fetus
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  • 4-ceia
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  • 1-Bio-Biblion
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  • TRANS-E: The Body and Technologies, 1994: In-Fluxus
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Description

The exhibition TRANS-E (trans, transit, trance!) consists of four installations shown simultaneously: Bio-Biblion, A-fetus, In-fluxus and The Supper. TRANS-E creates a series of experiences for the visitor involving the entire body.

BIO-BIBLION is the library of life. There are medical books, personal items, mixed with electronic screens. A slide image appears and disappears on the wall like memories do that come and go. And a bowl of blood moving in the center of the room is like an offering to life. The red color created by the light on the TV screen is like immaterial blood, feverishly boiling due to the vibration of electrons, just like human blood.
The other screen shows an image of a father, a photographic paradigm of life frozen, a dead moment of a time that will not return. A slight vibration produced by animation shows the immediacy of a sign of life. On the third screen, the pages of the book are turned by someone who is not present, but from whom we hear the sound of breathing and heart.


A-FETUS can be read as "a fetus" or "affection". At the entrance of a tunnel, images of an ultrasound scan of the uterus with a six-month fetus are shown. An illuminated area populated with tomographs gives the visitor the impression of walking through a small area of a human body. At the end of the tunnel, the visitor himself is shown on a television screen. He was born in this room.

 

In IN-FLUXUS the visitor walks through heart membranes, hears their beating, speaks inside them. On the five transparent screens, the ultrasound-scanned images of the heart look like clouds or smoke moving in space. The images pass by like waves.

 

In A CEIA (The Supper), two rusty iron tanks are placed in the room, showing videos of laparoscopies (abdominal surgeries). The images inside a body are soft and moist and change inside the metal containers, which are hard and stiff like a shell. In contrast to the cylindrical bodies, six lambskins on each side evoke twelve dried bodies. Above the tanks is a glass vein of liquid that the infrared sensor makes drip as the visitor moves around the room, giving the impression of one body surrendering to another. (Diana Domingues)
Keywords
  • aesthetics
    • acoustic
    • installation-based
  • genres
    • installations
      • interactive installations
    • sound art
      • sound installations
  • subjects
    • Body and Psychology
      • bodies (animal components)
      • senses
  • technology
    • displays
      • electronic displays
        • projection screens
        • projectors
Technology & Material
Hardware
video projector, five transparent screens, cardiac echographies, loud speaker, sound amplifier, echo dispositif
Hardware
multimedia installation, two rusty iron tanks, two TVs displays,videolaparoscopies and special effects, glass tube, red liquid, infrared sensor, mechanical valve, six lamb’s died skin
Installation Requirements / Space
installation with light box and tomographies, videocamera, 2 tvs, tape with ultrasound scanning and special effects