Heidi Kayser

Proprioceptive Refraction

heidi — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 01:15:23 +0000

Red Carpet Walking Machine

heidi — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 01:03:45 +0000

A sketch for a walking contraption that would allow one to march through the world with a continuous red carpet under one’s feet. As a commentary on the fetishization of both celebrity, and “agency” in a more general sense, I wonder if we are actually disabled by this feeling of individual importance, in that if we were forced to make manifest this methodology of being, we would instead become literally hindered in our locomotion and blinded by our own solipsism.

Wearable Tea Time

heidi — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:14:24 +0000

One in a new series of collages in which I construct intentionally hermetic environmental narratives, Wearable Tea Time deals obviously with issues of domesticity and bourgeois praxis, but less obviously with ideas of object-oriented ontology and the move away from the anthropic principle. If we could humble ourselves by “becoming” a table, but were stuck using human language to describe the metaphysics of being a table, are we then half table, half human? Is there a new ontology that lies in the interstices between “us” and “them”?

Clipping Icarus

heidi — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:07:30 +0000

Double Failure of Icarus

heidi — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:06:17 +0000

Each Foot Passes

heidi — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:04:01 +0000

Blobjective Identity

heidi — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:01:56 +0000

This new series of silohuettes explores “corporeal boundaries” – where the human body ends and the “Other” begins, by thinking of utilitarian objects as not separate from ourselves, rather as “prosthetics” we can leverage (or “utilize”) in order to form a more complete understanding of our shared, post-consumerist/capitalist ontology.

Waxing & Waning

heidi — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:00:11 +0000

Body As Sewing Machine: Quilting Points

heidi — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 23:58:01 +0000

Wearable Worlds

heidi — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 23:56:38 +0000