A video work by Boo Chapple

Blow Me is a video work created for an exhibition called Bones of the Skin. It is created from a collage of footage from three sources: a wireless camera housed in a pill sized capsule that is swallowed and used to image a region of the small intestine previously inaccessable to this type of diagnostics; an animated 3D scan of my body using the same 3D scanner technology as was used for Parametric Flesh; wireless surveillance camera footage and documentary video from the performance installation How to Turn Your Solar Plexus into a Terrorist.

Blow Me was made in creative response to Matteo Pasquinelli's idea of 'warporn' - "a deadly vortex of war, media, technology, body, desire" (Pasquinelli:...) - and references the increasing surveillance of our bodies on all levels. All three image sources, engage with the informational relationship between the body and its representation. They express the transductive processes by which boundaries and surfaces are extracted from the living body in order to interface it with a representational system. This ability to generate representations from the body, manipulate them and feed them back, is part of the way in which we understand ourselves as bodies and as a culture. Once these representations exist in the digital realm, there is the potential for infinite replication and variation, an excessive proliferation of effect.

"Collective imagery is the place where media and desire meet each other, where the same repeated image modifies millions of bodies simultaneously and inscribes pleasure, hope and fear." MP p5

In combining these three image sources, I hoped to capture something of the feedback loop by which the residues of life, are objectified, eroticised, amplified and affectively re-experienced.