What does it mean to swallow?

I devour the outside, make it part of my body. Yet, at the same time I’m opening myself to what is not mine. The body becomes an open vessel, a channel, a container, a medium. Foreign signals run through my throat. They are swallowing me up while I swallow them. This may be hard to stomach.

This video essay is a guttural meditation, with swallowed cameras, hungry screens, and the endoscopic visions of science and fiction.

A first version was made for the Seminar „Einverleiben“ by Sarina Tschachtli and Sina Dell’Anno at the University of Basel, Spring Semester 2024