possiblebodies.bau.disobedientbodies

Signs of clandestine disorder in the uniformed and coded crowds

materials
-printed situations
-a3s with empty legend + space for description
-different colored a4 papers (400?)
-printed measurements on small paperpieces, A6
-printed numbers on small paperpieces, A6
-empty small paperpieces, A6

introduction [10'']
swimming in a sea of data
quantified self
Bodies (their presence, their permanence, their credibility, their potential) are affected by how they are measured, remeasured and mismeasured.
Mixing and matching measurement systems from: anatomy, physics, chemistry, geometry, biological, economic, biometrics, ...
probable -> possible

numbers
Each group selects 5 numbers. 50 in total (prepared)
Are you happy with your numbers?

measurements [15'']
These are raw numbers, so: abstract.
Brainstorm: what measurements? Dimensions? Disciplines?
Each group receives 5 measurements. 50 in total (prepared)

bodyparts [5'']
Numbers + measurements. But measuring what?
Each group proposes 2 bodyparts. Can be internal, external, small, composed, ...
mix, redistribute

situation [5'']
"We walk the streets among hundreds of people whose patterns of lips, breasts, and genital organs we divine; they seem to uls equivalent and interchangeable. Then something snares our attention: a dimple speckled with freckles on the cheek of a woman; a steel choker around the throat of a man in a business suit; a gold ring in the punctured nipple on the hard chest of a deliveryman; a big raw fist in the delicate hand of a schoolgirl; a live python coiled about the neck of a lean, lanky adolescent with coal-black skin. Signs of clandestine disorder in the uniformed and coded crowds"

"Caminamos por las calles entre cientos de personas cuyos patrones de labios, senos y órganos genitales divinizamos; nos parecen equivalentes e intercambiables. Entonces algo llama nuestra atención: un hoyuelo moteado con pecas en la mejilla de una mujer; un collarín de acero alrededor de la garganta de un hombre en un traje de negocios; un anillo dorado en el pezón perforado en el pecho duro de un repartidor; un puño grande y crudo en la mano delicada de una colegiala; una pitón viva enrollada alrededor del cuello de un adolescente delgado y lanoso con piel-carbón. Signos de desorden clandestino en la muchedumbre uniformada y codificada"

[Adolphe Lingis, Dangerous emotions http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/221758/11488299/1301521968773/Lingis2000_DangrousEmots-FacesCh3.pdf?token=i4lwZoP99UCkt6nlk649m3s9Qpk%3D ]

Fill out the legend with the data you received and draw the body/bodies that appear(s) in this situation [30'']
Make sure all people in the group have their hands in the drawing. Circulate or draw together.

Fold back the legend and re-distribute the drawings

Each group makes a technical description of the received drawing and details the measurements where necessary [30'']
Interpretation. Possible modes: engineer, anthropologist, biologist, science fiction writer ...

Re-distribute the drawings and descriptions, read aloud [15'']
Look at the drawing together first before reading.

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... kg (weight)
... grams (weight)
... miligrams (weight)
... tons (weight)
... ? (mass per unit, density)
... red (RGB)
... green (RGB)
... blue (RGB)
... mm (height)
... cm (height)
... km (height)
... mm (width)
... cm (width)
... km (width)
... mm (depth)
... cm (depth)
... km (depth)
... degrees celsius (temperature)
... mm (length)
... cm (length)
... angle (rotation)
... applied force per mm2 (elasticity)
... km per hour (speed)
... miliseconds (duration)
... minutes (duration)
... days (age)
... years (age)
... mm (diameter)
... cm (diameter)
... meters (diameter)
... cm (radius)
... m (radius)
... cm2 (surface area)
... km2 (surface area)
... m2 (surface area)
... (number of corners)
... (number of limbs)
... liters (volume)
... cm3 (volume)
... watts (power)
... beats per minute (rate)
... beats per second (rate)
... beats per hour (rate)
... €uros (cost)
... dollar$ (cost)
... bitcoin (cost)
... $oles (cost)
... dps (disintegrations per second = radiation)
... ph (acidity)
... ? (dynamic viscosity)
... v (kinematic viscosity)
... BMI (Body Mass Index)
... likes
... IQ

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person -- citizen

designers have / is a body
design touches bodies

how are bodies ordered
age - race - gender

knowlege, power techniques

Somateca -- Alive archive

anatomy
scale
average
fashion for non-human
calculations
reading/inscribing
hybrid
relation - similar
limbs and phantom limbs
group, common body
virtuality, avatar
getting rid of bodies
vital space
how many bodies does a body contain

space of projection

disobedience to the norm