KAISU KOSKI

The operation room lights shine brightly in four surgical theatres. The class is connected remotely in this simultaneous surgical lesson. The teacher calls for the instruments needed: “the blade!”. Four multicoloured gloves in four different screens pick up sharp instruments – wait, are they kitchen knives? “Tweezers!” Are they eyelash curlers? The surgery continues, virtually, synchronically; the screens focus on the body part being operated on, until the bizarre last step, when the surgeons put down their instruments and pick up a knife and fork…and diagnose the edible bodies in front of them by taste. This is a work by the Citizen Surgery Collective, an interdisciplinary practice-based research group
(Kaisu Koski, Noémie Soula, Anne van Veen, Anna Harris).