To coincide with the symbolic exhumation of Artaud's inert body being
brought about by the upcoming show of his works at the Museum of Modern
Art, F.P.U. will conduct a month long installation project, involving a
mixture of performance, telecommunications and video-observation. We
will map the physical/ephemeral body of Artaud, traversing corresponding
points of Artaud-related activity, delineating nodes of "electronic
disturbance" along a geographic route tracked by a global positioning
system.

The operative metaphor here is electroshock, and the brain is M.O.M.A.,
where all the archives (the treasures of thought) will be held.
Throughout the duration of this pseudo exhumation, F.P.U. will be
playing electronic doctor, stimulating significant points in the
imaginary brain,and mapping the corresponding path of effect within the
imagined body.

For the project, a custom built truck will be transformed into a mobile
internet broadcasting studio, The Truck will dock at cooperating
locations in Manhattan to coincide with pre-scheduled events pertaining
to Artaud, at locations such as the Drawing Center, Anthology Film
Archives, Thread Waxing Space, and M.O.M.A.

THE F.P.U. MOBILE UNIT.

1. The Mobile state:

While in its mobile state, the truck will be broadcasting its interior
installation and will be gathering internet participants from the
cybersphere. It will be exchanging and accumulating audio/visual data
from remote sites, and driving the map of the body into virtual
existence.

2. The Stable state:

Upon docking at a real world location, the mobile unit will enter into
"electronic hookup" mode. When docked at a real world location where it
is scheduled to perform, the mobile unit will enter into the "active"
mode, connecting its telecommunications umbilical cord to a docking
structure built inside the exhibition space. At that point, the unit
will begin its performance:

"THE BODY WITHOUT ORGANS"

AN OBSERVATION RITUAL TO HONOR ARTAUD, TO ACKNOWLEDGE HIS ABILITY TO
HEAR THE DISEMBODIED VOICES OF THE INTERNET 50 YEARS PRIOR TO ITS
EXISTENCE, AND TO ACCOMPLISH HIS DESIRE FOR A "BODY WITHOUT ORGANS" AS
EXPRESSED IN HIS FINAL CREATED WORK "TO HAVE DONE WITH THE JUDGEMENT 0F
GOD."

THE INSTALLATION ASPECT OF THE EVENT WILL CONSIST OF AN ELABORATELY
CONSTRUCTED INTERNET BROADCASTING "RIG" WHICH WILL SIMULTANEOUSLY SERVE
AS A VIEWING/PROJECTION PLATFORM & AN IMMERSIVE ENVIRONMENT WITHIN WHICH
THE OBSERVATION RITUAL WILL TAKE PLACE. A SCHEMATIC DIAGRAM OUTLINING
THE BASIC CONFIGURATIONS OF THIS "RIG" IS INCLUDED WITHIN THIS DOCUMENT,
AS WELL AS SOME STILL FRAMES FROM A WALKTHRU "SKETCH" EXECUTED IN VIRTUS
3D, TO SERVE AS AN ILLUSTRATION OF THE PROPOSED ENVIRONMENT.

THE OBSERVATION RITUAL WILL BE A FULLY STAGED BODY SCANNING OPERATION,
IN WHICH THE BODY OF ARTAUD IS DISSECTED BY THE VIDEO LENS OF MULTIPLE
DIGITAL VIDEO CAMERAS. THE OUTPUT FROM THESE CAMERAS WILL BE DISPLAYED
UPON CORRESPONDING MONITORS, WHILE THE SIGNAL WILL BE SIMULTANEOUSLY
BROADCAST (THROUGH "POINT-TO-POINT" AND/OR "CUseeME" VIDEO CONFERENCING
TECHNOLOGY) TO COOPERATING POINTS OF VIDEO INTERSECTION.

THIS SYSTEM WILL BE CONSIDERED ACTIVE WHEN THE "OBSERVER" AND THE
"OBSERVED" ARE INVOLVED IN A RECIPROCAL BEHAVIOR. WHEN THE SELF, IE: THE
BODY OF F.P.U.(ARTAUD) AND THE OTHER,IE: THE BODY OF THE REMOTE
PARTICIPANTS FORM A COMPOSITE BODY WHICH EXISTS ONLY IN THE TRANSMITTED
LAYER OF THE BROADCAST/RECEPTION.