Nothing Here But SHadows

Nothing Here But Shadows is a hybrid work that combines installation, film and theater. Three empty, featureless bodies roam an abandoned post-apocalyptic installation where huge screens beam the memories of digital minds. Trapped, they live a ghostly existence in the rooms and hallways that make up the architecture of the digital environment. They are what remains of an elite who have downloaded their minds into a supercomputer, in an effort to survive the unnamed catastrophe that has wiped out humanity.

Their minds are degrading and becoming mixed with viral products, the self-generated fantasies of a solipsistic machine. It is no longer possible to distinguish the original individualities from the characters the system creates from algorithms and shreds of residual data. 

The work explores the theme of disembodiment in contemporary technological culture. The themes revolve around the separation of mind and body, and the schizophrenic relationships that technology imposes between virtual existence and flesh-and-bone life. The interaction between image and body is articulated in various ways to explore the different registers of mediated life.

The posthuman body is under siege, at the juncture of cutting-edge technologies that threaten to redesign it and render it obsolete. The dream of flesh-lessness is the flowering of old longings expressed throughout Western philosophy and culture. Based on a novel aesthetic proposal, the work seeks to investigate the forms and conditions of technological alienation, and celebrate corporeality itself as the source and destiny of the human.