‘What is important about this reality is that it hurts, makes noises, smells. That it bleeps or falls on the floor’

A live work which encountered and reworked ‘The Body Multiple’, an iconic ethnographic investigation set in a Dutch university hospital and written by Annemarie Mol in 2002. The short performance-lecture reset this classic study amongst the materials of Johann Arens’ exhibition at PAKT, Amsterdam, and in so doing inserted a new kind of object into the space: one which responds to Arens’ challenge to think about the relevance of tactility, both in medicine and sculpture.