AI-edited film of human skeleton kicks off Venice Biennale
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Pierre Huyghe is the French artist behind "Liminal", a wide-ranging exhibition at Venice's Punta della Dogana created in collaboration with curator Anne Stenne that questions the relation between the human and non-human, as well as animal and machine.
In "Camata," a film edited in real time by artificial intelligence, a set of machines performs a bizarre ritual on a skeleton of a young man found in Chile's Atacama desert, the world's oldest and driest.
"The ritual performed by the machines appears at once as an endless funeral rite, an operating theatre, and the learning process and formation of a specific lifeless subjectivity," according to the exhibition's website.
It describes the film as a "self-presentation that endlessly edits itself, without linearity, beginning or end."
The skeleton is thought to be that of a miner who died 100 years ago and now lies in a region where astronomers base their telescopes in these extreme conditions to study planets outside our solar system.
One room in the exhibition is an aquarium containing animals such as a hermit crab living inside a replica of a sculpture entitled Sleeping Muse from 1910. The crab and the muse's heads are intended to embody the hybridization of two species, between a non-human being and a human representation.
The exhibition's films, sculptures and installations with living creatures are to be exhibited later in the Leeum Museum in Seoul.
The show is one of the first to open ahead of the Venice Biennale, which starts on April 20, and will end when the Biennale ends on November 24.
