Camilla Carper: Sculpture MFA '23

Fever Dream, 2022

is an interactive multimedia installation including an audio meditation, video projection, and sculpture. This work explores the subject of body heat to explore human consciousness, romantic connection, and gender

Calibration Audio - 13 minutes 27 seconds

Participants are meant to listen to this audio outdoors on a freezing cold day before entering the gallery to view interior works. This recording opens as an audio meditation, guiding listeners to focus on their body's experience of hot and cold. The familiar audio trope pivots into a poem/essay from the perspective of an A.I. consciousness, or possibly a ghost, desperately trying to find a body of their own. The A.I. attempts to seduce the listener by explaining the gendered history of thermometers and infrared technology. The A.I. closes their address by propositioning an act of intimacy and possible body transference. The audio reanimates listeners directing them to stand and open a silver box. The box holds seven purses that have been filled with water and frozen solid. Participants are instructed to take one of these cold bodies into the gallery and to return it to the box before exiting.

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