| Title: | Imperceptible Intimacy |
| Technique: | Installation (site specific) |
| Info: | It is not only a lot, it is personal, it is intimate. Every minute, I am sending more personal information about myself to subjectless corporations than I would ever want to tell any person. Digital privacy does not exist. Why shouldn‘t I disclose everything I voluntarily disclose to Google, Facebook etc. anyway? The location log that Google has of me consists of more than 900‘000 locations, each dated to the millisecond. Of these, those were filtered out that document my stay in the semi-public space of my schools kitchen. The result are fragments of time, which add up to 21 hours and 48 minutes in this kitchen in the two years 2018 and 2019. These time fragments compared with data logs about me – requested by Whatsapp (FB), Instagram (FB), Google, Apple Mail, Safari (Apple), Spotify – resulted in huge code files. These contain personal information like Google search queries, private messages, played songs, etc. The installation Imperceptible Intimacy is a site-specific self-portrait, exhibited in Sept 2020 in the same building the above mentioned kitchen is located. It consists of 156 DIN-A4 sheets, printed on both sides with personal information of the author. They are hung with transparent thread in a grid with a distance of 43cm each. The hanging device connects all sheets together and so the installation fills the whole room. It is not possible to enter the exhibition space without touching or moving the sheets. Through the media transfer from digital to analog, the abstractness of the digital processes is (partially) deconstructed. At the same time, the hanging makes it impossible to connect the individual documents with each other or to gain an overview. |
| Year: | 2020 |
| Credits: | Many thanks to: Stefan Sulzer, everyone else involved Photography: Seraina Grupp, Noah Krummenacher |
