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After ‘Typhoid Mary’, Linda Dement made this bloody CD-Rom which does full justice to its title. For this work, Dement pulled a body to pieces on the computer and processed a number of its parts into new, obscene ‘creations’, quivering and vibrating ‘cyberflesh’. The main menu has these nine ‘monsters’ neatly listed. They are activated by clicking them. And so, for example, a trunk-like creature appears which spits out flowers of flesh with each click. You can navigate further by clicking on the flowers. Ultimately you arrive via every hybrid ‘organ’ at a story whose text is always placed on the enlarged detail of a body: a body part with a tattoo, or a nipple with a ring pierced though it. The stories are particularly horrible, and are about cruel sexual violence. Under these screens lurk three mouths, which each lead further. An eye drifts into an open organ-like chunk, underneath a row of flayed penis forms bound in chains. Sometimes a short text is spoken or appears on screen. "Suck my code, baby”. Or: "If only every woman could kill just one of the men who have raped her", after which a QuickTime film starts in which a man is shot through the head, has his penis cut off with scissors, is perforated, stabbed, pricked, cut ... Dement’s message is unequivocal: her vision of the post modern body results in Cyberflesh Girlmonster.
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Jorinde Seijdel
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co-Production Australian Film Commission, Thanks to Art Research and Development Fund/Australian Network for Art and Technology
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