Remote
Remote, 2024, 6 x 4m, height variable, pneumatic cylinders, microcontroller with WiFi connection and email account, air compressor, PVC tubing, custom 3D printed parts, steel mending brackets, hat elastic, cotton upholstery, embroidery thread, salvaged turned wood chair legs.
I couldn’t take it home in a jar. Not that I’d want to anyway - digital extraction seemed more exciting. Handing over both my phone and consciousness, I lay on the operating table, waiting for my uterus to be disconnected. It was a pretty useless organ to me anyway, having outsourced the gestation of my kids to strangers through Facebook. Theatre staff dutifully laid out the organ, posed it as per anatomical norms and used my phone to 3D scan it. On waking, I was left with a digital artefact to reclaim and materialise.
Essay by Dr Pia Van Gelder courtesy of Adelaide Contemporary Experimental