This is a feature for the SPIRES series curated by Kitsumute.
To create, I’ve destroyed myself. I’ve so externalized myself on the inside that I don’t exist there except externally.
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet, fragment 299, c. 1918.
The self does not remain where it says I. It passes into gesture, habit, interface, memory, and the borrowed operations through which a life becomes legible to itself. Dispersed Sensorium follows this movement as a condition of personhood. Beginning with Peter Wolfendale’s account of the self as dynamic integration, the video asks how a person coheres itself from acts that exceed intention, mediations that outlive the moment, and a sensorium already shared with technical forms. The human emerges as a precarious composition: a multitude held together long enough to speak, to act, and to inherit its own consequences.