Bodies Without Organs*, 2020_21: Lila Chitayat (Tel Aviv), Gabi Schillig (Berlin) is a multisensorial sonic, architectonic installation, framing an interactive dialog between tel aviv and berlin.
An installation created by lila and gabi includes hybrid spatial elements – made of wood, foam and sound – examining how the presence of bodies and people, located in a public-private sphere play a role for potential new communication and public actions.
The work was developed for the exhibition: Re-Public at liebling haus tel aviv and will be shown simultaneously in Tel Aviv and in Berlin at the gallery ‘Under the mango tree‘
The work was created as a dialog between the artist and two cities.
„A plateau is a piece of immanence. Every BwO [bodies without organs] is made up of plateaus. Every BwO is itself a plateau in communication with other plateaus on the plane of consistency. The BwO is a component of passage.“ Deleuze/Guattari, in: A Thousand Plateaus - Capitalism and Schizophrenia, 1987
The spatial structures of ‘body without organs*’ emerged from an interactive spatial vocabulary developed throughout the course of the past year 2020 between Gabi and Lila, as a distant spatial exploration of a private / public void. The emerging spatial landscape, not an architectural extension nor a furniture, is a new plateau for virtual and physical communication expanding the body to be a space, while referring to the concept of „body without organs“* by Deleuze/Guattari in which a body that is lacking its organs / organization becomes a fluid and changeable system, a new plateau for exploration and communication.
The evolving spatial structures are hybrid spatial structures that can be walked on/inhabited and used, inviting people to contact and encounter them through their soft materiality. They are body extensions, dwellings, sound sculptures, and image transmitters. They visually and auditorily narrate moments and situations of public space in tel aviv and berlin. At the same time, they are gaze apparatuses that direct the visitor‘s gaze to the immediately surrounding (public) space. The result is a hybrid space between the two cities and a dialogical space between people.
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Initiated by Liebling Haus, Tel Aviv
Curated by Sharon Golan and Shira Benyiemi for re_public 2021
Exhibited at under the mango tree, Berlin 2021
*Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari: A Thousand Plateaus – Capitalism and Schizophrenia – published by The University of Minnesota, p. 175, continuum books, 1987 / Originally published as Mille Plateaux, volume 2 of Capitalism et Schizophrénie, 1980 / Les editions de Minuit, Paris.
