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The An-Archic Device

Media sculpture after text by Antonin Artaud

The An-Archic Device is something between toy theatre, street altar and peepshow: a small-scale stage model, a blinking automata, an audio-visual machine, that produces physical and anarchic dissociation by means of laughter.

Based on Antonin Artauds theater manifesto „The Conquest of Mexico“, The An-Archic Device deals with Mexico as a space of otherness and as a subjective heterotopia. Hence, Mexico becomes the playground for an examination of danger and fear along the site, where each subject is set back to its self in its relation to the world.
A ten pesos coin starts the device.

 

Installation
by Tobias Rosenberger

 

Past Performances

  • 2009-06-30, bis 31.07.2009; Galería A/B del CENART; Río Churubusco No.79 esq. calzada de Tlalpan, Colonia Country Club, México D.F.
  • 2009-07-31, ab 30.6.2009; Galería A/B del CENART; Río Churubusco No.79 esq. calzada de Tlalpan, Colonia Country Club, México D.F.
  • 2010-04-21, Kunsthalle Dominikanerhalle, 23. European Media Art Festival Osnabrück: Mash Up