Patent Human Energy

A performer positions herself like a fakir on a bed of long iron spikes placed at a distance of 4cm from each other. Microphones are placed where the body touches the spikes to register the sound of the suspended body, and also create a larger supporting surface.

Like a fakir the performer manages to obtain her position through a state of deep meditation. And meditation suggests: transcending, crossing the border of a-conscious state to non-conscious state of being, from the active to the passive. Meditation also implies a “surrendering” through which we are able to use energy, normally spend on the fight against proper “schizophrenia”, for transformation.

BASIC ASSUMPTION: THE HUMAN BATTERY
On 30 th of June 2004 under ‘US Patent 6, 754,472’ the American Company Microsoft patented human energy. The patent protects: a method and apparatus for transmitting power and data using the human body (…), as a conductive medium over which power and/or data is distributed. The physical resistance offered by the human body could be used to create a virtual keyboard on a patch of skin. According to the patent, the intent is to reduce device redundancy for people carrying multiple devices, such as a phone, headset, handheld, and wristwatch that all include a speaker…