Complete alteration, deformation and the subsequent transformation of the surrounding world is Ivan Plusch’s theme in this work. This is the personal story of a long life in an extremely limited space, when the concept of personal space turns into the tactile sensation of one’s own body.
At the same time, here we see the transformation of the hero into a number of replaceable parts, into a win-win system of spare parts. Attaining immortality is, it seems, very easy. It is achieved by transforming the corporeal and the living into machines – into mechanisms, and by leaving the laws of life for the system of laws that regulate the functioning of machines.
How often it is that fragile physical human nature disappears round yet another corner and loses its own uniqueness in the pursuit of an illusory world of comfort (the wallpaper of its own cosiness) and ends up there, as if having been snared by existence.
Only the serial and standardised is accepted by modern man. Such reproduceable objects can always be replaced by others and, in this sense, they possess a certain element of immortality and imperishability. Modern technology offers us something different – the promise of eternal life, guaran[1]teed by the technologies of reproduction, which is then mastered by a modern person for serialising his own life
