Incarnation
Artist：Christoph Wachter, Mathias Jud
The Artificial Nature as scientific and industrial development comes along with new options and challenges - such as organ transplantation. The ability to save lives is connected to difficult procedures and raises many questions.
In this interactive presentation, one's own presence becomes both an object of cognition and a subject.
The value of humans will be discussed plainly. This value goes beyond human esteem and also refers to the material level of the body, the organs, and their value in terms of survival.
Despite medical possibilities, we are and remain tied to the body in a peculiar manner. With transplantation, vital organs must be transferred from one body to another. Therefore, the condition of the 'material' itself becomes important. A debate can unfold in which those sentenced to death can, as bodies, take a stance of awareness. Suddenly, they no longer have the embarrassment, the shame or the curse that is upon them; instead, their bodies are desirable. The convicts announce the surrender of their body publicly; they predict their self-sacrifice and soar up into something more than human; they give themselves up for the sake of others in an act of heroism.
The voices and people who are tried and are supposed to be removed from the world appear in a different context with different life circumstances. They even merge materially with the population. The substances which themselves already have a criminal record - the DNA, fingerprints, even the faces - can now return and find their way into another body.
It is therein again clear that we as an enlightened society are not free to dispose of bodies, as we are in a fundamental way dependent on them.
