Eudaimonia (from the Aristotelian concept) is a sculpture-installation for two performers using the idea of the daimonic to play on the idealisation and deconstruction of the human body. The live body is surrounded by a set of cameras connected to monitors, magnifying, fragmenting and re-framing it. Electroacoustic feedback emanates between camera mics and TVs. It is altered by the movements of the performer in the centre, who in turn responds to the electroacoustic environment. Feedback is perpetual as well as static in the way a sculpture or a painting would be. Moments of ephemeral beauty give way to drastic and sometimes pornographic images, failure follows achievement and embrace follows collision between the soft machine of the body and the dependant hardware. Working between choreographic score, projected text and tone recognition software the performance of Eudaimonia is a self-contained system in which digital technology appears part of an extended nervous system, both contradicting and supporting the human effort at its centre. 

 Component parts:

4 monitors, 4 mini dv cameras, live feed leads, 2 projectors, 1 laptop, tone recognition software, text, 1.5 square metre rostra, the human body.

Blind Ditch Collaborators: Volkhardt Müller with Cat Radford, Dan Harris, Paula Crutchlow and Henning Hegland.