Lauren Moffatt - Local Binaries

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How do we experience our bodies as places? This is the question that has driven the development of the experimental documentary Local Binaries, an AR experience that seeks to describe the inner worlds of its nine architects in landscape form. A group of female-identifying participants undergo a body mapping meditation, visualising their body as a landscape and their emotions and physiological sensations as features that populate that landscape such as plants, buildings, animals and weather patterns. The artist Lauren Moffatt then takes those testimonials and collages them together into a virtual landscape, which also includes site-specific elements for each exhibition venue (eg. Fischerinsel where Hosek is docked). The sculpture can then be launched from the smartphone devices of exhibition visitors. The map appears as a miniature landscape that fills the space (around 5m x 3m). As the visitor moves around exploring the map using their phone as a viewfinder they discover tiny figures roaming the landscape, approaching close to the figure will cause the character to look up at the visitor an begin speaking. The figures are reciting a curated monologues, composed of different fragments from the participants’ testimonials. In this way they describe the landscape before them as in ecomimesis, a Romantic writing tradition whereby the writer actively described their natural surroundings in their prose. There is no specific order that the experience should take, or any goals or prizes to win, the experience is over when the visitor decides they have had enough.

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