
As part of the ‘desert/wet box’ project series, the Fragmented Body of an Abstract Cathedral emerges as a technological-linguistic exploration of the digital object understood as a becoming-face or abstract machine. The minority machine appears here in the wrapped body as the output of a deterritorialising process, capable of opening and rotating, constantly redefining itself in a cybernetic system. The ‘cathedral’, made up of linguistic encodings and decodings, escapes in 10 structures of utterances that orbit abstraction and make up the map that falls from the body: language / is a face / an abstract machine. This work is constructed as an interface that allows malleability and navigation through the space that tries to define it; the navigation, thought for a web visualization on PC, is done using the mouse and in sum the arrow keys. The user can dissect the abstract body using the ‘wrapped’ button and activate its cyclical movement using the ‘accident’ button (the wrap allows for a closing and opening, the accident or crash opens the body to leaks of abstraction). As the user changes its point of navigation, a map will be formed that corresponds to the sum of various linguistic structures that emerge from the part of the body that is being explored at that moment. Each body part corresponds to a series of encrypted codes unique to this piece, which will be decrypted in a text box at the bottom of the navigation screen. Each encryption generates a sound, which can be heard on the side button of the navigation interface next to the generated code. This interface features a brief legend and description of the project, as well as a visualisation of the abstract cathedral body map. The conceptualisation process of this work is based on readings of Deleuze & Guattari (A Thousand Plateaus, Anti Oedipus, Rhizome, What is Philosophy), as well as texts by Yuk Hui (Art and Cosmotechnics, Recursivity and Contingency and other texts and publications), and fragmented readings of Bergson, Heidegger, Bataille, Ballard and Giorgi Vachnadze. As artistic references, the work of Harum Farocki, Orphan Drift and Francis Bacon has been taken into account. The programming process for this piece was carried out in collaboration with Levi Yitzhak (X: @terro_tools).