Duration: 1’15” (with sound)
Sfincterman is a present-day superhero.
Caused by a flood of superficial and one-sidedly consumed information, mutations of several sfincters have grown all over his body. These mutations have eaten away large parts of body tissue and have turned his body into an unimaginable emptiness.
With his sfincters, Sfincterman has the supernatural power to bury everything that bothers him in a suffocating stream of vulgarisation, un-empathic babble, blind criticisms and alternative facts.
Standing on a vermillion vat filled with his own gunk, he goes full steam ahead and gets applause. His slush is highly contageous, and, without a moment’s thought, doubt or critique, Sfincterman’s powers take over the bystander’s body: a Sfincterman clone is born and spreads among humanity.
The hardened pieces of pulp that lie around the sculpture on the plinth can be put on the sphincter rings by the visitors. In this way the artwork transforms.
Trivia
A sphincter is a round muscle closing a hollow organ. Some sphincters can be tightened deliberately, others work involuntarily.
2023 > Rework ‘Sfincterman Nr.0.0’
