The ideas which are discussed in the film Perpetual Operator are here translated into an installation, expanding the discourse into an open, spatial dispositive. In a collaboration between Dominique Koch and the Japanese musician and poet Seijiro Murayama, the poet recites the possible combinations of jellyfish DNA, which are engraved on metal pipes.
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This performative recitation of DNA sequences which are an attempt to code the living, pushed by science to a reductive paroxysm, explodes the rational and irrational modes of constituting reality as fiction by rendering them reversible.
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