Developed at the Workshop at the Main Square in Linz (Werkstatt am Hauptplatz), 2015.

Performers:
Doris Sattelberger / Arnulfo Pardo Ravagli

Fotography / Montage:
Adriana Torres Topaga

Music:" Backdrop 2015March08" by ainsite (cc)
soundcloud.com/ainsite3/backdrop
Mix: a+

Thanks to Aileen Deireg for her support.

The space around us in which we interact, could be seen as a skin-enlargement? The skin as negotiation space, a womb-like environment.

This series of fotos and videos try to generate an abstraction of the human body by placing the performers between two surfaces: a stretched fabric over their bodies and a furry one underneath. The capture imaged reminds a womb-like environment, sometimes even liquid because of the monochrome, light and blurriness of the image. The movement and the visible parts shown through the skin (streched material) builds a subject defined in a fragmented manner. At the other hand the fluid moves in such a smooth setting producing in the observers a kind of sense of calmness .

Using the same framework some objects were set up within it, as an attempt to research other aspects of the skin such:

- the expression of the outside or contour of objects as "performers" of an environment and
- by ironing out the appearance of the "actors", looking for a habitat in which either human or non-humans could be seen “alike”, rather with the aim of sustaining the quietness atmosphere or transporting it to in-animated subjects.