LC4/R-MACHINE.
LC4/R-MACHINE is a bricolage-piece that proposes Le Corbusier famous chaise
longue as a 'therapeutic' device.
The videomatic apparatus is composed of the LC/4 Chaise longue, a TV, a DVD
player and headphones, all self contained inside a box made of Plywood. The
viewer/user is able to go inside the box, sit on the chaise longue and relax
watching the video in a monitor situated a few centimiters from his/her head
while listening to Bach's Goldberg Variations. The video shows the face of an
inmate of Sao Pedro Psychiatric Hospital in Brazil, which is staring at the
viewer 'via' the camera, without blinking.
The video has been edited with continuos fades that are synchronized with Bach's
notes.This 'flickering' effect produced by the fades 'inprint' an afterimage
of the patient gaze in the viewer eyes. The R-Machines use a icon of modern
Utopia to set an heterotopic social space that could trigger a reversal of the
subjet/object positions that constitued the logic of vision.