‘’If I believe that I don’t exist does that not impact who I am? Who am I without a body?’’
Writer Esmé Weijun Wang
(suffered from Cotard syndrome)
Interdisciplinary collaborations exploring disembodiment
‘Dis_embodied Project’ is a long-term research project that consists of an interdisciplinary team, exploring and producing multi-disciplinary artistic experiments to understand human existence without a body. Where our consciousness lies and how our sense of self is generated still remains one of the biggest unsolved questions for scientists and philosophers.
What happens when humans exist without a body? What does that mean for our sense of self? These questions won’t stay hypothetical forever.
Challenge to engage & expand existing knowledge
The Dis_embodied LAB takes these questions as a starting point and uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore their answers. By connecting experts in the field of disembodiment and consciousness multi-sensory experiments are developed to make our relationship with(out) the body tangible.
Mediums
In our changing world where uploading our mind, AI and exoskeletons are the new frontiers, the multi-sensory experiments bring us back to what it means to own a biological body.
They are developed in different mediums:
- 3 Screen Video installation with the human, science and AI subjective perspective on disembodiment
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Multi-sensory installation in a sensory deprivation tank
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Immersive audio installation with bone conduction sound
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Documentary personal stories of losing your body & scientists research consciousness
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VR-project with wearables
Showcasing and testing experiments