By an interdisciplinary team of artists and researchers. 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, notions of energetic citizenship, and the pathologies of the social-political body within our own bodies.

Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir Choreography & somatic practice,Susan Kozel Philosophy & Archival Concept,Jeannette Ginslov Creation for Tablet & Visual Concept, Keith Lim AR/MR/AI Interactive Technologist

What aspect of your research is most connected to this political/cultural moment?

How to extend the human experience beyond space and time. Recognizing more than ever the importance of the politics of the somatic dance practices we work with, and the holistic and political theories they support. Now when people haven't been able to meet and grow through human resonance as freely as before Covid-19.

You can access this MR choreography now by using your mobile device with our App.

How to use our AR App: Search and download the “CATALYSTS - Somatic Resonance” app from the Apple App Store or Google Play. Click “Start” in the app. Point your device’s camera to an image above and enjoy the mixed reality experience.

This is an artistic investigation about unspoken conflicts between power and speech. It evokes what remains as memory even when forced into forgetfulness. Through transgenerational histories, we seek to understand the relationship between voice and silence, dealing with stories and rituals related to women’s ancestral body knowledge and expressions.

Maya Dikstein works with performance and installation, approaching voice, movement, excrement and libido. Mar~Yã<>Makabra Coqito works in the fields of political art and bodily ancestral medicines.

What aspect of your research is most connected to this political/cultural moment?

We talk about the experience of trance in women's bodies as a state of awareness in which present and past coexist. When you live a trance experience, you hear voices from the past that come back, because they demand justice. It's an opening of the body, capable of transforming the chain of unconscious repetitions of transgenerational traumas.

Addition to you who will participate, Maya and Mar greet:
Wear comfortable clothes.
If possible, make sure you have enough space to lie down on the floor and adjust your camera so we can see the whole body.

This presentation focuses on an in-person performance for an intentionally tiny audience, to investigate modes of distribution including resistance to documentation and the archive. It addresses questions about how audiences, content, and presentation modes can, and perhaps cannot, be brought into together-ness, alliance, and (possibly) sympoiesis.

Laura Knott has performed at the documenta exhibition; in videos shot in the Californian desert, and by a police camera; and in a live-streamed performance of simultaneous dancing in eleven countries.

What is most urgent to you in your research right now?

I work across media and presentation modes, but all of my work is based in investigations of place, lately examining regenerative practices for food production. Defining "place" is urgent in choosing how - in what mode(s) - to present each work; to ask: In what form(s) can the work invite alternative imaginaries (and instantiations) of worlding?