On the 23rd of September 2006 the project “the artists’ artists” begins in the outLINE Foundation. The project consists of six episodes by six established artists [John Hilliard GB, Katharina Grosse D, Paul Kooiker NL, Uwe Laysiepen D, Roy Villevoye NL and Marijke van Warmerdam NL] as guest-curators. Each artist introduces a younger colleague artist.
During the first episode Uwe Laysiepen will present Dorcas Müller [D 1973] who is a former student of Laysiepen at die Staatliche Hochschule fur Gestaltung in Karlsruhe.
Starting point for the performance videos and photographic works of Dorcas Müller is the tangent plane between the physical reality and the digital net, based on scientific models [neurochip research]. She shows the natural body where scientific models cross the physiological borders and exceed the spectrum of the human senses till the body finally disappears out of sight. The body, though already dead, is being broken open by Müller, dissected in separate parts coded into large amounts of data and calculations that become greater and greater abstractions. The body is questioned as a living creature.
In science the body is often presented and pictured as a High Tech object: the human element seems absolutely absent. The experiments of Müller though, with information and images gathered by her, with new combinations, imitations, dissonance, transformations, show the body as a perceptible being - sometimes grotesque, sometimes comical, sometimes both - as an alien in a model, clinical surrounding.
In the experiments leeches play an important role. In the video “Hand, Egel, Chip
- Die Erschaffung des Neuros” 2002 [“Hand, Leech, Chip - the Creation of Neuros” 2002] a living leech pumps information from a neurochip to a human hand.
The chip - leech - human nerve cell is translated into a perceptible image.
The work of Dorcas Müller is not only aesthetic or formalistic, but takes place on a social and scientific level. For her cooperations with the Max-Planck-Institute in Martinsried München | Germany, the Harvard University Boston | USA and the University Koblenz-Landau | Germany Müller has received several prices.
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