JUST, JESPER. – Berardini, Andrew. – Campolmi, Irene et al:. Jesper Just: Interpassivities, Servitudes, Circuits. Mousse Publishing, 2019. 4to spiral-bound as issued. Unpaginated. Richly illustrated, with texts in English. Light wear to wraps else clean and overall well preserved near fine copy

First (and only) edition.” Touching on two main conceptual anchor – Jorge Luis Borges’s fable “On Exactitude in Science,” involving a map so detailed it is as large as territory itself, and the notion of interpassivities, as coined by Robert Pfaller and Slavoj Žižek, which refers to a human action and is based on outsourcing emotions and feelings fragmented” this work – premiered at BAM with music by Kim Gordon), the filmmaker, choreographer and performance artist Jesper Just (born 1974) has inaugurated a new style of Gesamtkunstwerk. This artist’s book compiles visual documentation of his works: with “freestanding video screen shows close-ups and parts of bodies belonging to a group of ballet dancers. Lying prone and passive the dancers’ bodies are connected to electrodes that cause their muscles to jerk and contract. Usually, our movements are triggered by electrical impulses inside our body. Here, that control has been allocated to external electronics instead. The dancers’ bodies, usually responding actively to music with empathy and sensitivity are reset and rebooted: they become vehicles for a dance performed by a computer interface. Just often works with installations that restructure the exhibition space and the visitors’ opportunities for navigating it. Here he has arranged lightweight concrete structures to form a fragmented architecture of walls, blocks and single stones. The LED screen has been split up, and some of its panels have been taken out and places around the room, revealing the inner technical workings of the video screen. The installation is full of circuits: the circuit of bodies, the circuit between music and body, and the circuit between the individual parts of the fragmented image. Electricity, music and bodies, sensitivity and control: all these aspects shift inside the wider circuit of people, things and technology”