THURSDAY 17/12/2020 H 19:00
“AMONG BODY AND VISUAL IMAGES” –
Talk/Conference/Performance
live on Facebook page FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE DI TEATRO,ARTE E NUOVE TECNOLOGIE
with:
AjaRiot – performing arts collective (Isadora Pei, Giulia Parri – Biella)
Open Call LMDP7 Winners with D.A.K.I.N.I SUIT(E)
Dr. Virgili Elisa, PoliTeSse Research Center -Verona University
Ilaria Nina Zedda, dramaturg playwriter and theater director – Kyberteatro.
THE PERFORMANCE
D. A. K. I. N. I. S U I T (E) is an interactive performance that involves the use of suit motion capture. The correspondence between the experience of the body and its virtual projection is at the center of the 3D animations of the performance D.A.K.I.N.I. SUIT(E); the suit, second skin of the performer, allows the dialogue between the physical body and the virtual body, through overlaps, duplications, symbioses and clashes, as well as the creation of new digital identities outside of pre-established tracks – other identities that create new territories by imagining and desiring, as Deleuze said. We wish to reveal to the public the process and the relationships, and to modify in real time the body/space and the transforming spaces/places. The body re-creates the space it crosses, changing its features. On stage there is the director, a dancer performer and a motion designer. Our research feeds on Donna Haraway’s cyborg andon Susan Styker’s somatechnics, which allude to the inextricable intertwining of soma, the body, and technics, technology, techniques. One of the focal points is the relationship between the body and technological devices for the shaping and modification of bodies: from a biological body to a techno-modified body, an experimental platform for the re-invention of possibilities – the body as biopolitical space, which in Preciado’s words is a construction, a “field of multiplicity open to transformation”. “We are the machine, our processes, an aspect of our incarnation” says Haraway in the Cyborg Manifesto. We venture into the exploration of the individual of the future on the wave of cyberfeminism, technofeminism and xenofeminism.
THE PROJECT
D.A.K.I.N.I. SUIT(E) is a multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary project aimed at investigating and creating dialectic bridges between the theme of Artificial Intelligence, new technologies and contemporary Feminist Theories. It stems from an idea of the performing arts collective AjaRiot in co-production with the Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium (NTL – Odin Teatret, DK) and it will be internationally developed in 2018 and 2019. The main goal is the production of a performance in which physical theatre, video projections, interviews, dance and sound experiments will be the key languages of our research.
D.A.K.I.N.I. SUIT(E) is a multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary project aimed at investigating and creating dialectic bridges between the theme of Artificial Intelligence, new technologies and contemporary Feminist Theories. It stems from an idea of the performing arts collective AjaRiot in co-production with the Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium (NTL – Odin Teatret, DK) and it will be internationally developed in 2018 and 2019. The main goal is the production of a performance in which physical theatre, video projections, interviews, dance and sound experiments will be the key languages of our research.
AJARIOT.
They are a group of artists, performers, dancers, activists, video makers and organisers. They are mixed in nationality, background, age, experiences and practices. Research, transdisciplinarity and the theme of self-determination are their common cornerstones. Through them, they explore the relationship between body and visual images, its intersections, its active potentialities. It is an open poetic process: a continuous work in progress. Which welcomes disparities and does not aim at unifying. It loves differences. Their research is nourished by corporeal, somatic, plastic, visual, documentary and political practices.
They are a group of artists, performers, dancers, activists, video makers and organisers. They are mixed in nationality, background, age, experiences and practices. Research, transdisciplinarity and the theme of self-determination are their common cornerstones. Through them, they explore the relationship between body and visual images, its intersections, its active potentialities. It is an open poetic process: a continuous work in progress. Which welcomes disparities and does not aim at unifying. It loves differences. Their research is nourished by corporeal, somatic, plastic, visual, documentary and political practices.
ELISA VIRGILI is an indipendent researcher. She completed her Ph.D in Philosophy of Social Science at Insubria University and she has been visiting researcher at Center for Gender research in Uppsala (Sweden). She graduated in Political Philosophy at the University of Padua. Her research interest lies in the area of language and gender, queer theory and the relationship between sport and gender.
She is Theory Coordinator for Archivio Queer Italia project. Here’s a sample list of her publications: Olimpiadi. L’imposizione di un sesso, Mimesis, 2012; Ermafroditi, Mimesis, 2013 e Antigone, o l’eterna ironia della comunità, Alboversorio, 2014, Smagliature Digitali (2014).
