Protected: Building a rectenna for restoring energies

Marthe Van Dessel is a technoactivist, pedagogue and performer who initiates ‘bodies’ in non-hegemonic relations to hard-, soft-, wet- ware and digital re-affection. As part of the transuniversal constellation "ooooo" operating since 1998, they initiate, mediate, facilitate and create projects that encourage thinking, reflection and action, in relation to relevant and urgent techno-social issues. www.ooooo.be

Isabel Burr Raty is an artist, media theory professor and sexual Kung Fu practitioner. Her work, situated between live and visual art, researches into ancestral knowledge and official scientific facts, to point interstices between the organic and the artificial, questioning meanings of matter, territory and healing. www.isabel-burr-raty.com

Their collaboration started in 2022 during the residency program "TOPOS 4 - the sci-fi of the body" in Antwerp.


















[1] Brown demonstrated its capacities through a model helicopter that was powered by microwaves transmitted from the ground and received by the attached rectenna.

































































































[2] This speculative research started with the idea of converting sexual energy into electricity, and evolved amongst others, into developing artifacts that help free the free electrons from being commodified in the process of harnessing  electricity and their over-accumulation in every human and more-than-human body.