INSISTER SPACE

How performance could be expanded online? In current times, the definition of a person is often viewed as an expanded field of information, not necessarily located in a singular body. A person is also their online presence, all social media accounts one shares with friends or followers. Rather than existing only in a body, a person is a field of information located and stored in various devices, bodies and environments. MEMEBRAINE is revolving around the cyberspaces and technologies as expansions of human experience and representation. Rather than treating them as exterior or other to human, we want to research how they are embodied and attended with embodied practices.

How can the experience of an online self be felt by the senses? What are the tendencies of cyborgs as a species, not really human and not really natural? What does practices of embodiment mean when a person’s body cannot be fully grasped? What kind of environments or ecologies exists or could exist? Is there a ”natural” behaviour of the self in cyberspace? And; what happens to the perception of space (spaciality) in cyberspace?

MEMEBRAINE is looking more specifically into memes, which have turned into a complex culture of intertextuality in virtual communication. The proposal is to investigate how to use memes as choreographic tools and methods for activating dancing, as well as ways to relate and empathize.

MEMEBRAINE is a work in progress in collaboration with Alexander Talts.

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FOAMING UTOPIAS

I AM FOAM OF CELLS
THE FOAM ON TOP OF THE
WAVES WHEN THEY PREPARE FOR
YET ANOTHER MOMENT
OF
SWIRLING CONFUSION
THE POSSIBILITY OF ALL THE DIRECTIONS
CIRCULAR, LIKE TIME
THAT PASSES THROUGH
YET ANOTHER MOMENT
INTO REORGANIZATION
OF MASS.
Actually, I’m also foam of cells.
Foam becomes the edge of the wave,
the wave
becomes the ocean.

FOAMING UTOPIAS is an attempt to discover the potentiality of dancing in imagining, creating, and attending utopias. It expands from an essay and writing practice dealing with utopias as philosophical and embodied phenomena.