Stealing time between administrative tasks, Isabella decapitates herself at the photocopier. The machine is both resistant and receptive to the body at the same time. Technologies become extensions of ourselves, as well as systems of surveillance. Reception functions as active submission: point of sale, administrative performance, a stage for transaction. It is where clients are greeted, calls are made, and copies of numbers, words, and images are made and made again. The work asks what it means to seek intimacy with the office machine, to replicate the self intentionally, and to leave the machine-captured body as analogue - submitted to the historical subject of paper. In the process, the photocopy captures machine noise, makes movement material, and ruptures the logic of copying. The severed head becomes a relic of the retina.

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