Of Gord - House

Digital photograph / performance sequence still.

The Centrifuge Protocol

The subject, designated Unit 734 , is suspended not by rope, but by chrome. A custom-fabricated steel collar, lined with memory foam latex, is bolted to a vertical actuator rail. Her posture is dictated by a rigid, orthopedic-grade back brace encased in black rubber. Her arms are trapped in a reverse prayer position inside a clear acrylic tube—a vacuum-sealed sleeve that leaves only her fingertips visible, painted in a matte industrial grey. house of gord

The lighting is clinical, cold—a single, hard spotlight from above, cutting through the haze of a concrete and steel chamber. There are no soft shadows here, only the geometry of control. Digital photograph / performance sequence still