In Funny how I’m always on the head of a longing arrow, Henrietta Fisher presents an anthology of vignettes interrogating the interplay of bodies, technology and practices of communion. Extending from Paul B. Preciado’s assertion that “screens [are] the new skin of the world” [1], Fisher explores screens as prosthetic extensions of the body—techno-sexual organs mediating our desires, interactions, and dissolving outlines. For Fisher, the screen emerges as a libidinal surface, an interface that blurs the boundaries between physicality and the digital, intimacy and isolation.
By dissolving the self into technological and ecological entanglements, Fisher reimagines the screen as a space of both anguish and play. Here, the obsolete and the avant-garde collide—video editing effects become painterly tools, and hypervisibility becomes a meditation on exposure and reverence. Funny how I’m always on the head of a longing arrow asks: Can communion with the overlooked and the fragmented help us navigate the spaces between individualism and interconnected existence?
[1] Preciado, Paul B. An Apartment on Uranus. Translated by Charlotte Mandell, London, United Kingdom, Fitzcorraldo Editions, 2019.
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In Funny how I’m always on the head of a longing arrow, Henrietta Fisher presents an anthology of vignettes interrogating the interplay of bodies, technology and practices of communion. Extending from Paul B. Preciado’s assertion that “screens [are] the new skin of the world” [1], Fisher explores screens as prosthetic extensions of the body—techno-sexual organs mediating our desires, interactions, and dissolving outlines. For Fisher, the screen emerges as a libidinal surface, an interface that blurs the boundaries between physicality and the digital, intimacy and isolation.
By dissolving the self into technological and ecological entanglements, Fisher reimagines the screen as a space of both anguish and play. Here, the obsolete and the avant-garde collide—video editing effects become painterly tools, and hypervisibility becomes a meditation on exposure and reverence. Funny how I’m always on the head of a longing arrow asks: Can communion with the overlooked and the fragmented help us navigate the spaces between individualism and interconnected existence?
[1] Preciado, Paul B. An Apartment on Uranus. Translated by Charlotte Mandell, London, United Kingdom, Fitzcorraldo Editions, 2019.
