Body heat, evidence of life activity, is perceived through constant giving and receiving within one’s surroundings. The installation attempts to form a relationship between participating plants and the audience through human body heat. By sitting on the chair, energy is converted from body heat to electricity. The electricity powers a light which amplifies photosynthesis, causing the plants to generate more oxygen that is again circulated to the audience in the same time and space.
A Chair for Co-responding / Bon Kim (KR), Photo: Fish Tank
Credits
Technical support: Sangbong Lee
Bon Kim
Bon Kim is an artist and observer based in Bremen and Seoul. She has researched the body as matter and as temporary/continuously observed phenomena. Using the somatic body as a medium, she pays attention to circulation and co-relationships between body and surroundings with sculptural language.