selfie shamanism – UP-ON Performance Art Festival – Kunming, China

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The use of the smartphone despite producing images continuously displays similarities with a microphone, and the images generated are constantly evoking the comparison with a spooky practice of x-raying oneself, producing a stream x of data which again is read and visualised as an ever changing grid, accumulating to layers of noise devouring the image, it’s source.

v2 of selfie shamanism on a rooftop in Kunming / China.