KUMWHA Electric & System

Damyang, South Korea

A word on the word interinanimation-John Donne used the word ‘interinanimates" in his love poem, The Exstasie, referring to live lovers, lying still as stone statues while their souls intertwine, redouble and multiply. l. A. Richards, the architect of New Criticism, expropriated the term and applied it to poetic “attitudes" (interestingly, also a nineteenth-century term for tableaux vivants). Fred Moten has recently used the term to suggest the ways live and media of mechanical and technological reproduction, such as photography, cross-identify, and, more radically, cross-constitute and ‘improvise" each other. All three senses reverberate in the collaborative work of Manuel Vason with Live Art performers. There are a number of ways in which Vason and his coliaborators‘ images disrupt the reign of the uni-ocular perspective of the camera. The simplest way is that the pieces are hailed as ‘collaborative'. As collaborations between live artist and photographer, Vason's pieces are arguably both