24 – 28 Feb 2022
Catalysts Somatic Resonance
This work is created by an interdisciplinary team of artists and researchers and is an intervention in the tensions and potential of current digital cultures. It participates in ongoing discussions around the expanded choreographies of interconnectivity of mediated bodies, healing, feminism, notions of energetic citizenship, AI and the pathology of the wider social-political body within our bodies. Visitors to the exhibition carry the states from this choreographic exhibition outwards, like ripples in a collective somatic field.
Opening: Thursday, 24 February 2022, 19:30
This exhibition can be viewed through an app that can be downloaded on your phone or iPad.
Venue
ICI Berlin(Click for further documentation)
In English
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Part of the Symposium
Performing Embodiment: Practices of Reduction
Phenomenological reduction is not merely a theoretical concept but a practice or exercise. As developed by Edmund Husserl, phenomenology focuses on the operations performed by ‘living bodies’ in the most concrete and precise way, it is an ‘embodied approach to the construction of meaning’ (Susan Kozel 2007). Far from being just a theory resorting to reflection and analysis, or a merely operational method, phenomenology constantly integrates the intellect with sensory experience and is essentially performative. If the performative describes those actions in which one needs to figure out what one is doing whilst doing it, then phenomenological reduction is a performative approach to knowledge, an exercise of thought.
‘Practices of reduction’ refers to the idea of doing, of a poietic aspect through which different means approximate the embodied experience of the world. The symposium will thus focus on the possibilities that different means of expression (such as literature, dance, and music) afford in conveying and producingembodied experiences and will address the intersections of these forms of expression with the different technologies that make them possible nowadays, especially digital and AR technologies.
The first day of the symposium will see the opening of the exhibition Catalysts – Somatic Resonance. Using AI and mixed reality techniques, the installation will immerse the audience in a choreographed somatic experience.
Venue
ICI Berlin(Click for further documentation)
With
Emmanuel AlloaUrsula Fanning
Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir
Susan Kozel
Johanna Oksala
Dorothea Olkowski
Jennifer Yusin
Organized by
Alberica BazzoniFederica Buongiorno