The Video Hole

Background This research explores the interface between bodies and the contemporary media landscape. This research develops on from a PhD on the topic of the abject body and technology completed in 2014. The broad field of this research is ‘art & technology’ and the narrow field is ‘representations of the body’. In addition the research draws on the discourses and culture of post internet art, abjection, seduction/repulsion and bodily disgust in contemporary art and culture. The theme of the work is related to and builds upon an earlier sculptural piece called The Screen of Flesh (2015). Contribution Video Hole is a single channel experimental video art work exploring notions of body horror and the changing definitions of the human body. The work depicts a 3D animated simulation into the inner body, such as a colonoscopy of endoscopy procedure. Increasingly as our lives are mediated by the ubiquitous screen in different ways, the screen functioning here as an outgrowth and extension of human biology. The work reimagines how our relationship to the screen has shifted in recent years with the screen itself taking on the conditions of a biological-technological structure. Extending the research was Dr. Darrin Verhagan's sound design for the video consisting of sounds of the inner body. Significance My work ‘Video Hole’ was included in the exhibition Abyss, by curator Naomi Evans and was exhibited alongside another 26 artists, including high profile international and local artists such as Carolee Schneemann, Dieter Roth, Juan Davila and Hany Armanious. The Griffith University Art Museum is a highly respected museum space in Brisbane. The Exhibition also saw a significant catalogue for the exhibition with a number of essays on the theme of pleasure and disgust and abjection.