Epizoo - the performance

"Epizoo" by Marcel.Lí Antúnez Roca performed during DEAF95.

Epizoo - the performance

Marcel.Lí Antúnez Roca: Epizoo; photo: Jan Sprij

24
Nov 1995
22:00 to 23:55
location: Nighttown
 

A bizarre mixture of performance and installation. That is the interactive work Epizoo with which artist Marcel.Lí Antúnez Roca submits himself to the whims of the audience. Pneumatically movable mechanisms are connected to nose, mouth, ears, glutea and pectora, and members of the audience are invited to manipulate these mechanisms and the graphic animation projected on the wall via a touch-screen computer interface. Antúnez Roca, founder of La Fura dels Baus, is concerned with more than a simple shock effect: It creates an ethical dilemma, because you are manipulating a human being and actually causing pain. In Mexico a couple of people turned off the computer, because they disapproved so strongly. I am not a sadomasochist. There are more important issues at work: the depersonalisation of human relationships, the blurred boundary between sex and power, and the use of computers as instruments of control.

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Nederlands

Een bizarre mengvorm van een performance en een installatie. Dat is het interactieve werk Epizoo, waarmee Marcel.Li Antunez Roca zich onderwerpt aan de grillen van het publiek. Pneumatisch beweegbare mechanieken zijn aangesloten op neus, mond, oren, billen en borstspieren, en leden van het publiek worden uitgenodigd om deze mechanismes door een touch-screen computer interface te manipuleren, samen met de grafische animaties die op de muur geprojecteerd worden. Voor Antunez Roca, gaat het om veel meer dan een simpele shock-effect: Het roept een ethisch probleem op, want je manipuleert een mens en bezorgt die echt pijn(!). In Mexico hebben enkele mensen de computer uitgezet, omdat ze er zo tegen waren. Een sadomasochist ben ik niet. Het gaat om belangrijkere dingen: menselijke relaties die onpersoonlijker worden en de vage grens tussen seks en macht en het gebruik van computers als controle-instrumenten.

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