- thanks for your reply Suzon, and good luck at the Prague Quadrennial, let us know how "Assemble" went and what impressions you gained there. I almost would've gone there too, as I had submitted my book "Kinetic Atmospheres" to their design book exhibition. But as with Paris / ISEA, I think it's sometimes good to stay near the river in my valley.
As to atmospheres of black screens (when you only hear voices) or screens with talking heads, I had such a zoom experience you describe last Monday, though somewhat different. You wrote > - Zoom breakout rooms which allowed immediate possibility for strangers (in small numbers) to interact and have more intimacy than if they would be in a theatre, > - to remove the visuals for a while (black screen), to attract the attention to the auditive aspect to create an imaginary space for all... > and my questions would address precisely an assumed intimacy amongst strangers, and the ability to listen, and to hear (especially in a context of performing with disabilities); our meeting was called by Felipe Monteiro (Brasil) who suffers from a debilitating degenerative disease, and several participants joined, from far away locations in Canada, Eastern Europe, France, Germany, etc, to help discuss the foundation of the new Centro Antonin Artaud in Maceió, Brasil. We had a small agenda, on fundraising, project development/management, the setting up of a non-profit cultural association with legal statute, financial management, research interests, Internet, website implementation, social media, etc. Naturally, it was like a business meeting, though we also talked about our interest in Artaud and "expanded theatre and cinema", new media, health sciences, somatics and the legacies of Artaud's writings. But what I also noticed were the "somatic alarms" you – and perhaps others here in this netbehavior community – noticed, and that made interaction between us strangers quite difficult, as it was even amongst colleagues (which I felt during the pandemic, when still working at university): difficult and cumbersome, many misunderstandings happened, many suppressions or failed connections. It would interest me if others would report on their somatic alarms, or whether performing together (Alan might argue on behalf of this?) was in fact enhanced by isolating and debilitating networked (zoom) conditions imposed upon us? respectfully, Johannes Birringer On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 2:29 PM Suzon Fuks via NetBehaviour < [email protected]> wrote: > dear Johannes, > i am about to go to Prague Quadriennal with my new work ASSEMBLE. A bit > hectic with some life drama around me. > I will try to articulate more of my thoughts in writing about my > understanding of somatic alarms when i will return, end of June. > Embodiment and mediations, collective and/or individual are important to > me. > > sending love, > > Suzon > +61439929028 > +32 489 55 24 34 > > *ASSEMBLE *- installation performance - 8-18 June 2023 at PQ10 - Prague > Quadrennial - Performance Space Exhibition - with the generous support of > the ASEKOL compliance scheme for lending e-waste > *VOICES OF HAKKA WOMEN* - Finalist of Her Vision Film Festival and > Special Mention from Asia South East Short Film Festival - Finalist of > Toronto's Asian Feedback Film Festival -trailer > https://youtu.be/ZAQYmRFaskM > > > > *I acknowledge the country, culture and traditional custodians of the land > upon which I walk, work and live, the Turrbal and Jagera peoples.It takes > 12000 litres of water to make 500 grams of chocolate! http://suzonfuks.net > <http://suzonfuks.net/> | https://www.instagram.com/suzonfuks > <https://www.instagram.com/suzonfuks> | http://igneous.org.au > <http://igneous.org.au/> | http://wetlandwander.net > <http://wetlandwander.net/>* > > > On Wed, 31 May 2023 at 12:08, <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Send NetBehaviour mailing list submissions to >> [email protected] >> >> Today's Topics: >> >> 1. Re: 'Frugal Strategies', lesser satisfactions (Johannes Birringer) >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Tue, 30 May 2023 14:03:31 +0200 >> From: Johannes Birringer <[email protected]> >> To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity >> <[email protected]> >> Cc: Suzon Fuks <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] 'Frugal Strategies', lesser satisfactions >> Message-ID: >> <CAMft7nnreg6kUhzVphGG7Zvw3HJD5peKoB= >> [email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >> >> Thanks to all who responded to my post, recently, I was very happy to hear >> from you. (And was sorry to see I confused being quiet with being quite). >> Suzon, I just reviewed >> the short film you were instrumental in creating, on a kind of recent >> history (before Zoom came a popular meeting space during the pandemic) of >> networked performance; and I appreciate your reference to your own >> performance "Be Like Body?Obsolete". >> >> Please share more how you understand somatic alarms, and measures to deal >> with our crisis? >> >> I watched an excerpt of your beautiful project, "Be Like Body?Obsolete" ( >> https://vimeo.com/704400497O, where you seem trapped or enclosed by a >> graveyard of computers/motherboards/screens who may now drift off like >> space debris; though at the end of the excerpt you still seem caught in a >> box (and then the zoom participants/observers appear on screen for a yoga >> breathing ritual). Having participated also with Annie Abrahams' "Distant >> Feelings" and "Distant Movement" performances, which I quite liked at the >> time, I now feel more quietly resigned, quite turned off by Zoom and >> screen >> meetings ? a dysfunctional space in my mind, and black screens won't help >> me to love it either. >> >> I really did enjoy hearing a women's voice speak in Farsi, asking - "now, >> human, tell us with your artificial intelligence / what color is mature >> satisfaction?" >> The texts written by your co-performers (all women) tend to be wonderfully >> ironic, and sarcastic, did I get that right? (and Stelarc may have been an >> "outside eye", if he could still see?). >> >> Have you all heard the term "black-boxing", that we are being blackboxed? >> I wonder. >> >> warm regards >> Johannes Birringer >> >> >> +++ >> >> On Sat, May 20, 2023 at 2:57?PM Suzon Fuks via NetBehaviour < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Thanks Johannes for sharing your reflection about ISEA and network >> > performance. I think covid time has triggered some 'somatic' alarms, at >> > least for some people who were already into network performance >> beforehand. >> > I also turned into my local community, my neighbourhood much more and >> > questioned the impact of technology on humanity, through my network >> > performance "Be Like Body?Obsolete". >> > >> > Two things I found interesting to experiment with in terms of tools, >> were: >> > - the Zoom breakout rooms which allowed immediate possibility for >> > strangers (in small numbers) to interact and have more intimacy than if >> > they would be in a theatre, >> > - to remove the visuals for a while (black screen), to attract the >> > attention to the auditive aspect to create an imaginary space for all >> > >> > sending love, >> > >> > >> > >> > Suzon >> > +61439929028 >> > +32 489 55 24 34 >> >>
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