In an increasingly privatised and financialised healthcare environment, Auto-Haunt interrogates the sick and disabled body’s relationship with technology, ritual, and spiritual mysticism by juxtaposing the tangled networks of fascia and internet webs – which impact each other invisibly yet deeply.

Articulating arms are a signifier of the automated administration of care provided in medical institutions while technological screens show internal (the body) or external (life beyond sick beds) worlds, alienating and othering the sick body into abstraction. The videos highlight how the commodification of health, the perception of sickness, and the self-optimisation mandate consume and collapse in on themselves through their various on-screen representations.

Video: Alessandra Plaza
Sound Design: Hang Linton

Supported by Arts Council England.