Dividua

2022

HD Video and Sound, 7:37

Drawing inspiration from cartomancy rituals like tarot, in which practitioners use an apophenic logic to make sense of random data, and virtual casino aesthetics comes Dividua, at once clairvoyant and dealer. Her name is derived from "dividuations", a term proposed by Michaela Ott as an alternative to the outdated notion of the individual, which encompasses not only the divisible nature of a single body, but also its participation in multi-scalar events. Dividua, a deified embodiment of this term, forces players with her soothsaying-ritual-turned-casino-game, in which replicas of human body parts are used as betting chips, to draw mental and physical connections between a widely distributed network of events and phenomena in the hopes of dissolving any sense of individual agency.

Text: Cosmin Tapu