The Operating Room
Body | Machine | Location
Where the body, machine & location intersect There is no stage There is no beginning nor ending The play has already started
SCANS
-Film slides
-The Orb: Eye ball scanning queues at the mall
-Biometrics visa application
-Dental implant surgery
-Herding sticks
-Tailors ruler
SITES
-Nagoya Aquarium, Japan
-The Twin Arch 138 Observation Tower: Ichinomiya, Japan
-The former Ichinomiya Central Nursing School: Aichi, Japan
-Odeon Cinema, Nairobi
-The Expressway, Nairobi
-(outer)Space
-Event horizon
–Feral Atlas: Curated and Edited by Anna L. Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena and Feifei Zhou
-COVID-19 PCR testing & vaccination sites
-Dr. Stella Nyanzi- cyber harassment case & nude protest
-VFS & TLS visa application centres- Nairobi
-Nyayo House (Immigration Dept.)
-Huduma Centers
-Referral hospitals
-Moi Avenue/Tom Mboya st. opposite fire-station
-Institute of Primate Research
#kot (Kenyans on Twitter)
-Mkunguni Square, Lamu
-Mpesa (kiosks)
-Mall checkpoints
-Boda-boda
-Mathrees
OBJECT
-Herding sticks
-White cane
-1:1 scale model of the Nairobi Expressway
-Hyper objects
-COVID-19 PCR Testing kit & certificate
-Knife sharpening bicycle
-Home appliance manuals
-Ventilator
-Thermometer
-Measuring tape
-Tailors’ ruler
-Electric Kettle
-Clock
-Wedge
-Helical spring
-Rocks
-High school love notes on Floppy disk c.2004
-Ebony magazine embedded sound chip
-Digital & slide projectors
-Weather & whether instruments
FORM
-Fukeiron
-The shadow cast by the Nairobi Expressway
-Dark Ecology
-Vaccines
-Quarantine
-Animal movement & migration patterns
-Voting
-Ineos 1:59 challenge, 2019
-2019 Kenya Population and Housing Census
-(CBC) Competency Based Curriculum- Kenya’s new education system est. in 2017
-Weather & whether instruments
-250x160cm, 250x150cm, 250x160m, 250x150m
-37ºC