Teleportation and Transformation: approaching the 'impossible' through storytelling and technology by Eirini Sourgiadaki

This research delves into the enduring human desire for immortality, omnipresence, and boundless existence, contrasting with the finite nature of human life. Employing language tools like metaphor and analogy, the project explores the metaphysical realm embedded in everyday culture, investigating the in-between moment of teleportation and transformation. This moment, often overlooked, is a threshold of change and ambiguity, prompting questions about the body's presence-absence in time and space. The research methodology remains open, evolving organically through exploration, experimentation, and engagement with hypnosis, meditation, storytelling, and somatic practices. In a parallel exploration, the study draws inspiration from the historical origin of the term "Metaphysics," tracing its roots to Aristotle's works beyond the physical world. While acknowledging the dualisms inherent in metaphysics, the research embraces entanglement and recognizes the contemporary relevance of metaphysical inquiries in new materialism. Navigating the nostalgia for the past and the future, the study examines metaphysics as both a connection and a separation, akin to conjoined twins, contributing to ongoing philosophical conversations about existence, agency, and the interconnectedness of the material world.

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transform , magic wand , alice , golden glow , frog ,, scepter , witch , beauty , garbage , fairy , earth , diamonds , batman , purple , school

This is Superman. I don’t know who the other man is.

This is the Beauty and the Beast. Ah no, it’s Alice. I know her. But I don’t remember what is happening with Alice.

About this one, I know nothing.

I don’t know anyone who gets transformed. But I know Batman. He is inside, in my room. And Princess Holly. She has a magic wand and does whatever she likes. She can transform anybody to anything. Her wand is purple and she is a fairy. I also have a magic wand! I will get it now. It is looks like a scepter, but it’s not, it’s full of diamonds. With this, I can transform everyone all the time. I also have some magic rings. They have diamonds on them as well. But if I wanted to transform you, I would use the wand. When you see a golden glow coming out of it, then you know that it’s working.

There are no magic words now, in the past I used to say “abracatabra abracaju”, now nothing. I always bring people I transform back to their other state. I turn mom into a frog.

On Wednesday, I am performing in my school, we play the Gargage-Witch. She fills the whole Earth with garbage. I also believe in mermaids. I cannot remember if I ever saw one, I will need some time to think about it.

Device: wand

Transition: instant

Interface: sceptre

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Eirini Sourgiadaki - Teleportation and Transformation: approaching the 'impossible' through storytelling and technology - 2023

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