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MACHINE DREAMS

Alexei Taylor, Author

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Dis-Armor User:presence&absence

Dis-Armor bring in both the notion of presence and absence. In his project "Ghostcatching" Bill T. Jones was changing the traditional notion of presence and absence through separating what seems inseparable: he separated movement from the body in the moving body.(Ghostcatching). As a result, the dancer was still present in some ways, but only through the lines representing his movement on the screen. Similarly, Dis-Armor separates communication between two people from the necessity to reveal theface, and thus the identity of its user. Danielle Goldman argued that Jones was separating body from movement to eliminate audience’s sympathy to a particular dancer, and instead focus on the movement itself. Dis-Armor in a way also challenges the idea of presence. At the time of communication the user is in the same environment as the interlocutor, yet his body is separated and protected with Dis-Armor. Thus, the interlocutor can only see the projection of the user’s eyes on the back. As a result, the user has an opportunity to communicate his emotions freely and fearlessly. The simultaneous presence of the Dis-Armor user and his absence constructed through the protection of Dis-Armor puts aside the user’s possible concerns about appearing in public.With Dis-Armor’s protection the user feels free to concentrate purely on communication, which in turn serves to cure the user’s trauma.


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