ENDOSKOP-PANORAMA-STILLADS. FRI PASSAGE MED PAUSE VED GRÆNSEN / Endoscope-panorama-
scaffold. Free passage with break at the boarder.
Video projection loop, sound loop, mp3-player, headphones, mdf, automotive paint, metal, plywood, wood paint, leather
2014
Excerpt from the soundtrack in Danish and English:
“Men det er som om udspaltningen sker og alligevel ikke sker samtidig: Selvet træffer valg, kigger indad og fremmedgøres for sin egen krop, alt imens kemien trækker i trådene og erfaringen former vores neuroner i konstante påvirkningsloops, hvor den frie vilje ikke får et ord indført – her sker tingene helt automatisk og hele denne reflekterede deroute blottes for ethvert potentiale for inkonsekvens. Men i det perspektiv kunne man også spørge, hvordan en deling egentlig i det hele taget kan tænkes som mulig? Dét, til en start, overhovedet at forstille sig sådan noget, er vel nykker? I grunden er der jo ingen forskel mellem person og krop. Der er intet spøgelse i maskinen, men alligevel er der en selvbevidsthed, som ikke har fuld adgang til, hvad der sker i maskinen. Og dette giver unægtelig en glimrende anledning til at antage, at der alligevel må være en forskel mellem det, man kunne kalde maskinen, og den del af denne maskine, som så ikke bør kaldes et spøgelse.”
“But it seems like the segregation happens, and yet doesn't happen at the same time: The I makes choices, looks inward and is estranged from its own body. Meanwhile, chemistry is pulling the strings and experience shapes our neurons in constant impact loops, where free will has no say – here things happen completely automatically and this whole reflective de-route is devoid of any potential for inconsistency. But in this perspective one might also ask how a segregation could be considered possible at all? To believe such a thing in the first place might be a mere fancy? Basically there is no difference between person and body. There is no ghost in the machine, but still there is a self-awareness, which hasn't got full access to what is going on in the machine. And undeniably this provides a brilliant opportunity to assume that there must still be a difference between what could be called the machine and the part of this machine which then should not be called a ghost.”
The text can be read in its full length here, both in the original Danish version and in a translated English version.
