Kalliplokamos

Kalliplokamos is a fluid sculpture, an interactive audiovisual installation with performance elements. -The physical part consists of: a. An anthropomorphic 1,60×2.40 sculpture made of steel, wire and clear PVC tubing. Approximately one kilometre of 8mm tube is weaved throughout the body and the containing architecture. Divided into several separate routes, the tubes shape various patterns loosely describing human organs or circulatory shapes. b. A mechanism consisting of air compressors, fluid pumps and fluid containers that take care of feeding the tubes with liquids and cleaning them when necessary. All the circuitry involved to make the system software controlled is also there. The piece tries to define a network of inner body geometries that are visualised as fluid flows through the various patterns of the tube weaving. The body, acting as a canvas, aims to interpret the routes of chemical hormonal infusions generated by the body as emotions are experienced. Kalliplokamos could look like an emotional map, a network of feeling paths in a body. Different parts of the anatomy are highlighted and surface through the initially perceived chaos, to accentuate the parts of the body that are affected the most, in various emotional states. We aim to draw a body without its skin, in order to remove the identity and let the viewer relate, through the piece, to himself, as does any person seeing images of the inners of a human body.

Kokkinidou Eirini & Boukis Vasileios