I’m mesmerized…
It’s an installation by Cohen Van Balen, a London-based artist. In the everyday world, each machine connects with some vital part of the human life system and history. In the installation, the artist connected the machines to support not humans but themselves…
“The Immortal investigates human dependence on electronics, the desire to make machines replicate organisms and our perception of anatomy as reflected by biomedical engineering.
A web of tubes and electric cords are interwoven in closed circuits through a Heart-Lung Machine, Dialysis Machine, an Infant Incubator, a Mechanical Ventilator and an Intraoperative Cell Salvage Machine. The organ replacement machines operate in orchestrated loops, keeping each other alive through circulation of electrical impulses, oxygen and artificial blood.”
The looping of the fluids, the rise and collapse of the balloon, the process whirring of the wheels—this is a real imitation of life.
