kenrikodakalab.asterisk
Will my body turn into mind?
Will my body turn into mind?
My body turns into an object
Kenri Kodaka, “The Metamorphosis”
Hinae Usami and Kenri Kodaka, “You are doing it now. A3/A6”
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kenrikodakalab.asterisk
Headed by Kenri Kodaka, Associate Professor at Nagoya City University School of Design and Architecture; PhD. in engineering. Has had numerous special exhibitions aimed at giving the experience of seriously interfering with the “minimal self” (the self made up of the minimum elements) through the “illusion of the body.” Winner of the Best Illusion of the Year Contest, four years running, starting in 2019. Winner of the 7th Hisao Nojima Prize.
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What if your spirit could leave your body?
If you separate your body and your soul, your body starts to seem to be some sort of separate object.
What can give you this mysterious experience is the installation from “Kenri Kodaka Lab Asterisk: a laboratory of bodily illusions with many orders.”
These are hands-on devices to access the “body as an observed object.”
When you accept the various “orders” related to the body here, a system of mirrors and displays reflects your own body in strange shapes, or lets you be aware of yourself as you perform exactly the same actions as drawn in the pictures.
At that point, your body might become enveloped in the feeling that it is part of the objects around you, as if you are both yourself and not yourself.