Performance View: EXTC

‘NO scratching on the surface of the rubbish heap of tradition, will bring about Reform, the only method is Absolute Demolition’

– FEMINIST MANIFESTO, Mina Loy, 1914

The performance EXTC by Joanna Coleman and Martina Moro is to be understood in several senses as a feminist response to patriarchal body politics. It is therefore literally about taking space. In the interaction with the technical devices, a posthuman, hybrid and queer component is added. Like cyborgs, they celebrate the entanglement of technical devices and the human body. 

Joanna Coleman alias keinponny deals with error cultures, interference signals, random systems and sensory overload. Their artistic work revolves around the investigation of generative systems in their transdisciplinarity using soundscapes and rhythms of rave, trance and neo-gabber. The thematization of neoliberal commodification asks what is a 'good' signal and what is a 'bad' signal, what has value.The consciously initiated sensory overload/overstimulation by means of intense light and extreme sounds also leads aspects of a burnout and ADHD generation ad absurdum: too much happens at the same time, multitasking to the point of overload, mental risk areas and ecstasy are closely related.

Martina Moro is a sound visual artist collaborating with various musicians in exploring sound imagery. Using intuitive set ups and a research-like approach, she celebrates error, noise and causality. For her collaboration with KEINPONNY, MAMORO will work with Hexapod, a custom glitch art instrument, generating low res pixel images between calming flower fields and dooming black holes. What comes in between is everything else.