Biorhythm — Sonya Rapoport Legacy Trust
Biorhythm calendars (selected) and computer printout collage, installed at San José Museum of Art, 2020. Biorhythm (1980-1984), one of Sonya Rapoport’s earliest interactive, computer-mediated “audience participation performances” is a data-oriented yet playful exploration of the human body as a computer. In the late 1970s, there was a surge of popular but dubiously scientific interest in the body’s natural circadian rhythms. Using a commercial biorhythm calculator to predict her daily rhythms, Rapoport recorded her physical, emotional, and intellectual cycles throughout the year 1980. Making use of an oversize wall calendar, she created each day a small collage with the ephemera of her everyday life and paper records of her art practice – a fascinating autobiographical record. Biorhythm Calendar (details, snapshot), 1980. Mixed media collage on wall calendars, set of 12, 42.25W x 31.75H each. Rapoport then tabulated this data in order to create an artist's book on computer printout pap
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