Inert, Cardboard Bodies and Other (Un)Movings in the Time of Coronavirus

Renee Carmichael
Flee Immediately!
Published in
18 min readMay 24, 2020

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Donate to the gallery and you can have your body printed, full-size, in cardboard to occupy the space. It seems like a post from The Onion, but it is a fully enacted idea, something I stumbled across in one of my infinite scrolls on Instagram during quarantine in Argentina. These rigid, egotistical, and amusing portraits — and the questionable concept behind them — made me laugh for a whole evening. This morning I woke up with the urge to write.

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Researcher at Flee Immediately! Podcaster at Liminal Bits. PhD candidate working on dance and code. http://renee-carmichael.com/