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Thomas Bernhard Day & Enslaved ornament

During my final presentation I've presented progress of my two projects:
 

Thomas Bernhard Day

This work is a recipe for a procession/performance that is based on six steps used in contemporary research on emotion recognition in neuroscience. It is a procedure whose input data is fictional characters of the "Verstörung" novel by Thomas Bernhard. During six steps, using EEG device and interpretation methods combined with computer software, the recipe is able to generate profiles for other fictional characters from the activity of the limbic system (in particular: hippocampus and amygdala) confronted / stimulated by the fictional characters of the "Verstörung" novel. It is a work that deals with the phenomenon of brain plasticity and its ability to change itself. The main goal is to grasp this phenomenon "in action". To do this, the recipe is designed to be auto-affective, to be able to change itself after every execution.
 
For my semester project I would like to deposit the printed recipe with the detailed description and theoretical work in the library of Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology in Vienna and in AKH General Hospital in Vienna so the recipe can be found and used in any time in the future. These two institutions grasp the world of the "Verstörung" novel, divided into the tragic struggle between human need for fighting entropy and the forces of wild nature.

Enslaved ornament

This work is an attempt to make the phenomenon of entropy visible. To visualize the moment of becoming invisible. In cooperation with the chemist (mgr. Monika Koperska) from the Clinique of Paper in the Library of Jagiellonian University in Kraków, we are trying to develop a substance that is able to decompose paper to the degree of being invisible. The object sunken in the substance is a collage in the form of an ornament which is made of my personal photographs taken during my first weeks in Vienna in 2010. The form of an ornament is alive only in movement, when it is repeating itself - in my work this movement is stopped: the object of memory is disappearing slowly until it vanishes. Since now I've been working with Schweizer's reagent and hydrochloric acid.

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Thomas Bernhard Day & Enslaved ornament
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Date
January 30, 2014