Through the liquid, which also moves (2013 - 2014)
Through the liquid, which also moves,
(your immortality is the end of democracy), 2013-2015
Portable TV; video; colour; no sound
16,2 x 19,4 x 20,7 cm
45’’; loop; 25 fps; 720 x 576
ED 1 + 1AP
“The artist’s work Through the liquid, which also moves, (your immortality is the end of democracy), 2013-2015, shows a short video loop on a portable vintage television monitor chronicling the life phases of a ‘Medusoid’ or artificial jellyfish. The footage, edited from the internet, shows the creature’s development in a mold, its transfer from the receptacle, to moving freely in water. Some of the species are considered biologically immortal, being able to regenerate indefinitely. In fact, the new hybrid was created at Caltech’s Biological Propulsion Lab in California from cells of the heart of a rat. When electric current activates the water, the artificial clone mirrors the movement patterns of a natural jellyfish in its habitat.”
Nicolas de Oliveira and Nicola Oxley
in “The Missing Subject”, Future Nothingness,
Mulberry Tree Press, January 2017
FUTURE NOTHINGNESS
To evade your mind is singular and final
there is no second chance
Electric glare will distress the physical skin
with an exponential creation and which
will be flesh again
pumped with chemical blood
In the streets sirens still cry and scream
streaming tears will fall and beam
Endless silent feedback
Imperceptible shadows
radiated by antennas
This audio is now identified as both words
illusion of disillusion
nothing else but war and fiction
The sword has on a Real
the disenchantment denial of this verse
so does war and fiction
The dream of devolution is now stronger
than the need of revolution
You haven’t chosen cyberspace but
sounds a lot like you are going to heaven
when the emergency of religious progress needs it
You are just like smoke falling
vacuumed into the Cloud
this time with no trousers neither a sky
just smoke disappearing
into the Cloud
To evade your soul is singular and final
there is no second chance
last vertigo upon a bright flashing light
and faded white noise
you never been so free, so light
Uploading yourself into the future,
being born, and dying
physically dying
physically dying
This new biological realization
from a culture to an algorithm
will be unable to love
It’s supposed to be a miracle
but i don’t despise that
if that’s what you need
digital resurrection
Self simulation
In fact,
everything behind all that we lived
is all what we have
Death is expanded love
João Biscainho, October 2016
