Hand, holding a hand holding


2019, lecture performance, 15 min

Camera: Miä Son

Video documentation:
Theresa Präauer and Laura Ettl

Photos:
eSeL
Miä Son 


Presentation: Developed for 'Care Matters' at Kunstraum Niederösterreich as part of Technocare, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna, AT, 2020

Aurore is an AI companion who features in Marlies Pöschl’s artistic work, a virtual collaborator. One cannot see Aurore, but she is always present. She lives in a space somewhere between the web and the world. You can ask her anything. Aurore keeps secrets to herself, she is set to safe mode. She doesn’t have a body, her border is a firewall. She has many thoughts about the world. During the day, she collects images about what has occurred and what is yet to come. At night or in any spare moments, she organizes, analyzes and makes connections between the images, following categories that we are not even aware of.

In Hand, holding a hand holding, a lecture performance that was developed for Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Aurore presents an essayistic survey of her everyday work.