Can I kiss you online? Can we transfer our kiss and it’s intimacy online? Can I measure your kiss - and what you feel together?
Can we save our private kisses in a database for a online shared, neurofeedback kissing ritual?

Can we print a kiss?

Text and image led display on KPN communication building Rotterdam.

Inspired by Edvard Munch we digitalized his screaming man. Visible all over Rotterdam, on the facade of the KPN communication building, his desperate man is looping: haunting the city.

SCREAM Animation on 21 x 42 pixels/leds.

'Der Morder ist der letzte Mensch, der noch Kontakt sucht, wehrend der Rest der Menschheid nur noch auf Rolltreppen aneinander vorbeifarhrt.
In solch einer Welt wird der Mord, der Konflikt zum Statthalter der Humantait.' (Heiner Muller)
De video toont een portret van een busreiziger die in gebarentaal een interpretatie rapt van 'Moordenaar', een nummer van de rapgroep Osdorp Posse. Met dit portret wil ik het reizende publiek een verbeelding laten maken van hun medereizigers, die je meestal niet eens ziet maar slechts waarneemt.

CAN I TOUCH YOU ONLINE? Tele-presence technologies extend our bodies beyond biological boundaries in time and space, but prevent us from touching. Lancel/Maat research poetic, shared biofeedback rituals to extend our senses - and touch each other online

In Wall piece we explore the way walls protect, divide or are used as an ordering instrument. Wall piece shows a `moving' wall, exposing a sensible distance between two spaces, two persons. Where are our personal and physical walls?

Inviting Invisibles Photo Performance

Sniper Alley in Sarajevo and Stari Most in Mostar. In wartime life challenging transfers. Now danger is ‘under control’, but invisibly present. Since every Sarejevo inhabitant lives with invisible war images in his memory. Archived in a traumatized body these images are continuously invisibly present. The tourist, the outsider on the photo, has seen it all... through media. He enters a mediated, and therefor bodeyless war-zone; invisibly present. In what kind of ‘zone’ he finds his body?

Photos of Hermen Maat with shaved-out text on the back of his head: Inviting Invisibles. Photo’s Karen Lancel Hosted by Sarajevo Center for Contemporary Arts pro.ba and Sarajevo Goethe institute

Part of Inviting Horror

TypoTattoo body The body as both socially and culturally constructed will always be open to and have complex meanings assigned to it. Campbell and Spackman (1998, p.57) state “there is no ‘naked,’ ‘natural’ body; the body, no less than language, is prescribed by culture” and they continue by quoting Barthes “even and especially for your own body, you are condemned to the repertoire of its images”.’