macghillie - just a void

Urban sites are visited by a figure, dressed in a camouflage suit, who shows neither the traits of an individual, or even of a person. The socalled 'Ghillie Suit' was originally invented in the 19th century for hunting and that was later also used during the First World War. Its camouflage effects the anonymisation and the neutralisation of the person who wears it in public. macghillie, a -prefer not to- figur, an actor without idenity, transforming past and future into here and now, oscillating between the hyperpresence of a mask, and visual redundancy. It traverses the modern urban environment in which conspicuity holds ambivalent currency, wavering between cumbersome affirmation and visual arbitrariness. It is a variation of types like  'Bloom', 'Bartleby', or the 'man without qualities', which have transgressed their original literary existence and have become the tropes of philosophical debates around the postmodern politics of subjectivity.

The ongoing project consists of 3 parts:

• macghillie speaking, withdrawing from self. voices materialise and self oscillate in a physical space, the coordinates are real, but unknown. the permanent audio sphere can be accessed live online.
• macghillie here, there, anywhere. urban remnants.
• free access to macghillie-suits in different towns, become macghillie!