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Relaxing Chamber (signed)

by Aleksei Kazantsev

Photographs: Aleksei Kazantsev

Text: Dr. Christian Tudorache (Leiden University)

Publisher: dienacht Publishing

172 pages

Year: 2022

ISBN: 978-3-946099-35-2

Price: 79 €

Comments: Hard velvet cover with embossed photo; Black book edges; Duotone printing (two blacks); Foil stamping on the spine; Size: 20 x 28 cm; Book in a three-quarter printed slipcase

Relaxing Chamber is a continuously developing series of photographs that revolves around one common theme: the idea of consciousness in humans and animals. The images are motifs of human faces and animal forms, often not immediately recognisable. There are claws and tentacles, thrusting out, stiffened, at rest. And there are people, surrounded by a black void, some seemingly asleep, some in an ecstatic trance, others in contemplation. The project circles around the human psyche and concerns the archetypal symbolism of animals in collective unconscious memory, altered states of consciousness in trance and hypnosis, and related phenomena such as feelings of euphoria, isolation and dissociation in everyday life.

'Relaxing Chamber' (entomological term) is a container which has a very high humidity. When insects are dead long before pinning, rigor mortis develops, often resulting in body distortion. In such cases, a “relaxing chamber” is used to make them flexible. The text by Dr. Christian Tudorache (Leiden University) offers an insight into the current state of the art regarding the consciousness in animals and traces the evolution of philosophical ideas, dating back to Aristotle, and scientific findings related to topic.

[…] the weight of evidence indicates that humans are not unique in possessing the neurological substrates that generate consciousness. Non-human animals, including all mammals and birds, and many other creatures, including octopuses, also possess these neural substrates. The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness, 2012

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Relaxing Chamber (signed)

by Aleksei Kazantsev

Photographs: Aleksei Kazantsev

Text: Dr. Christian Tudorache (Leiden University)

Publisher: dienacht Publishing

172 pages

Year: 2022

ISBN: 978-3-946099-35-2

Price: 79 €

Comments: Hard velvet cover with embossed photo; Black book edges; Duotone printing (two blacks); Foil stamping on the spine; Size: 20 x 28 cm; Book in a three-quarter printed slipcase

Relaxing Chamber is a continuously developing series of photographs that revolves around one common theme: the idea of consciousness in humans and animals. The images are motifs of human faces and animal forms, often not immediately recognisable. There are claws and tentacles, thrusting out, stiffened, at rest. And there are people, surrounded by a black void, some seemingly asleep, some in an ecstatic trance, others in contemplation. The project circles around the human psyche and concerns the archetypal symbolism of animals in collective unconscious memory, altered states of consciousness in trance and hypnosis, and related phenomena such as feelings of euphoria, isolation and dissociation in everyday life.

'Relaxing Chamber' (entomological term) is a container which has a very high humidity. When insects are dead long before pinning, rigor mortis develops, often resulting in body distortion. In such cases, a “relaxing chamber” is used to make them flexible. The text by Dr. Christian Tudorache (Leiden University) offers an insight into the current state of the art regarding the consciousness in animals and traces the evolution of philosophical ideas, dating back to Aristotle, and scientific findings related to topic.

[…] the weight of evidence indicates that humans are not unique in possessing the neurological substrates that generate consciousness. Non-human animals, including all mammals and birds, and many other creatures, including octopuses, also possess these neural substrates. The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness, 2012

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