In the brain, the amygdala is a “house of fear”, almond-shaped container of raw flash. These codes are violent memory intosmall film still dose activated random triggers, such as freezing frames, poorly visible, yet powerful force. Post-traumatic stress affects those who testify against terrorism and maintain abuse. Forget, just for a moment, so willing suspension of disbelief, that there is no space behind the screen. Enjoy the fantasy of atopic space …. Where the topology, though drawn with vectors of Cartesian geometry, at best, temporary. Access is through improvisation, or performance on the part of the passenger through the broken area.
Naxsmash a cyborg utopia. It is everywhere and nowhere, she was standing in the Chora (between the two places between speech acts and space power). The electronic landscape is one that wants to talk, she can not speak of her gestures resonate, her skin is radiant, she disappears in a transparent layerings. I would naxsmash to recover speech to the aesthetic and ethical action within the space x, where I was nowhere, nobody, bandages, broken. In a world naxsmash, I’m more woman, man, but a place, x, a place without a subject. I would naxsmash as a way of communicating through art language when words fail me, as I struggle with the consequences of personal trauma, including sexual and emotional abuse. I’m not talking about what happened, I could not breathe. By utopia anywhere in space, I could make Naxsmash. Transistory and improvised, naxsmash, as well as the net, the playspace in the sense of presence ‘behind’ the screen. The name recalls the birth (nascença) and destruction (smashing).
Naxsmash project includes a multimedia installation, video installation, video, performance, net art and writing. Installations are adapted and modified for space and the use of any public place for the big performance installation naxsmash change with each new place, from the laboratory to video festivals, nightclubs and repurposed tram station. Since 2001, I created a version naxsmash in Vancouver, BC, Canada (Moonbase Gallery and “digitalis: Concerning the Spiritual in Art Digital”, 2001); Digital Studio / California Museum of Photography, 2002, Melbourne, Australia (Digital Arts and Culture Conference , Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 2003), Weimar, Germany (Deutsches Nationaltheatre / Bauhaus University / s back-up festival of new media and film, 2003 http://naxsmash.net/nax/naxsmashloungelab.html SelectMedia. Festival, Chicago, 2003, San Francisco Performance Cinema Symposium, 2003 Architectural design students collaborated on “Naxsmash: Poetry in the Global Powerhouse”, California Polytechnic State University Department of Architecture, 2001 and 2002 http://naxsmash.net/nax / naxsmashmedialab.html.