The Distorted Body

A voyeur, a watcher, a spectator. Our goal was to build (make-physical) the Human Gaze- expressed in its rawest state: The threshold between the viewer and the viewed- subject/object: two people. Wood studs, glass removed from a salvaged door, wire, a pulley system, nuts, bolts, and our own bodies. Inspired by work such as Duchamp's “The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even.”, and Chris Burden's “Doomed”, we designed and built a machine to capture (specimen-like) human bodies for closer inspection and analyses. The mechanism can only function, like a fulcrum, once someone occupies either side (two poles). This project reflects the dual, razor-sharp, nature of technology, as it increasingly shapes our lives.