The video displays two body-to-territory relationships by using two figures of speech: metonymy and metaphor. In the first part, the body acts on the territory in the same continuous way: I drink a glass, I turn a handle, I turn the television set on; the hand sets a switch off to act on a system. The metonymy designates the part for the whole, and works by contaminating; while the self's limitations appear fallaciously pushed back, the body seems strangely worried by what it comes in contact with, and gradually turns from white to black in the video. In the second part, on a metaphorical mode this time, the used objects (glass/button/dice) all appear analogically linked to one another by their common circular form. They are formally presented one after the other, in a seemingly endless succession, thus ending up completely detached from the user's body. This formal substitution sequence goes on as a white beam of light spouts out from the dark background. Whereas metonymy induced a contamination of the body by its environment, metaphor seemingly makes objects rebel against their user by introducing formal links that give them a deceitful autonomy.
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