On the occasion of CC10, artist Silas Inoue performs Anthropack. Other works by Silas Inoue can be experienced in CC’s exhibition Soft Robots.

In Silas Inoue’s aquarium sculptures, jellyfish made of sugar drift through deep-frying oil, or molds spread across structures of wood and waste, evoking imaginary urban landscapes. In the performance Anthropack, he explores another side of the aquarium by stepping into it himself, temporarily turning his body into sculptural material. As in his work with molds and other microorganisms, he is enclosed within the aquarium and supplied with oxygen solely through a plastic tube that runs upward and out through a bronze figure placed on top of the aquarium. The body is compressed, as if having entered another state – perhaps a fetal or hibernation-like condition – accompanied by deep, measured breathing. Over the course of ten minutes, he invites both himself and the viewer to reflect on a world in which the significance of the human is decentralized, and other life forms dictate how we exist and organize ourselves.