“Metallic Pulse and The Suspended Body” uses science, technology, and performance art to mediate corporal presence and create new materializations of the human body.
 
The project consists of a large-scale durational performance installation in which the heartbeats of a submerged body are monitored, and transfigured into liquid metallic drops by a machine. Each respiration of the performer, whose body remains confined within a liquid substance for 3 hours, is recorded by a pulsometer attached to the performer’s ankle. The resulting pulsograph is processed by a computer connected to a machine that transforms the biological rhythm of the performer’s heart into liquid metallic drops–one drop for heartbeat. The vision of the falling drops is enlarged by an oversize magnifying glass, and its dropping sound amplified by woofers. The alterations in the inner rhythm of the body as the performer endures the prolonged submersion define the speed of the drops, and the nature of the sound that inundates the room.
 
The strength of the performer is challenged by remaining inside the substance while breathing through a thin tube ; the accumulation of drops gives tangible form to the time that the performer remains suspended. Formally, the installation is composed of 2 main elements: a human-size glass water tank filled with a liquid substance in which the performer is submerged, and a devised machine that transforms the performer’s pulse into liquid metallic drops. SEE_VIDEO_&_IMAGES.