Activate: body, impulse, event

The artwork is not immediately revealed. It unfolds.

Its activation by a sound impulse involves the visitor’s body. This simple gesture — producing a sound — transforms the relationship with the object.

Activation is not a decorative interactive effect. It is constitutive.

Without activation, the work remains dormant. With activation, it becomes an ‘event’. The fixed duration of three minutes acts as a temporal framework. It structures the experience and imposes a temporality that cannot be compressed.

This temporal framework serves as a reminder that every aesthetic experience is situated. It has a duration. It has a beginning. It has an end.

Activation makes this dimension visible — and audible.

The body is not external to the work. It is its trigger.

Bibliographical references

Bishop, Claire. *Artificial Hells*. 2012. Bourriaud, Nicolas. *Relational Aesthetics*. 1998. Fischer-Lichte, Erika. *The Transformative Power of Performance*. 2008. Nancy, Jean-Luc. *Corpus*. 1992.