Boobservation

Humans and animals communicate with each other not only with words, and this is something that artificial beings can struggle to pick up on. There are a lot of signals that can be sent via the body, but we have chosen to focus on sexual signaling: the conscious or subconscious messages showing attraction and interest in another being. 

Our installation explores sexual signals as a complex, collaborative act rooted in instincts, interpretation, and mutual understanding. By using human breasts,  we have isolated this quality and separated it from the rest of the body. 

Transmitting

The breasts act firstly as an attention-grabbing stimulus for the audience, and secondly as symbol of our chosen creatureness.  The purpose of this one body part is to translate affirmative and negative sexual cues through Morse code: binary pulses of presence and absence, openness and withdrawal.

Decoding

As participants adventure into decoding the messages of the installation, they experience signals being communicated with them. However, might these messages actually be conflicting with each other? Does the creature on one hand say yes, but at the same time no? 

As sexual signaling is a cooperative ritual, the burden lies on the observer/decoder. Depending on the choice they make, the message understood will differ. It is the observer choosing which message they choose to see.