Loose Threads – Towards a Technodiversity

Live Performance

Beyond My Skin

A project by Flavia Mazzanti
Produced by Immerea
Performers: Olivia Hild, Imani Rameses
Sound: Brootworth

Beyond My Skin is an interactive installation here presented in the form of a live performance that explores themes of identity and digital inclusion. The project creates a phygital space where two performers can experience a new form of self-awareness and representation outside of traditional binary and societal portrayals (avatars). Translated movements generate hybrid digital bodies through interactions, creating a new collective consciousness of where our bodies begin and end. The performers explore the hybrid relationship between bodies and their digital representation in real-time, investigating something as physical as the feeling of "touch" and its meaning in the digital realm. Is it possible to be physically apart but touch each other digitally? And how would this affect our physical bodies?

Live Sound Performance

Dr. Obaro Ejimiwe (Ghostpoet)

Dr. Obaro Ejimiwe is a visual artist and musician whose work examines themes around African spiritualism, colonisation, masculinity, identity and black joy.

DJ-Set

isocialbutterflyy (POSSY/she/her)

isocialbutterflyy, artist, costume designer and dj, based in Vienna founded POSSY in 2017 due to a lack of FLINTA* visibility in Hamburgs Club culture. In her work, she is investigating on interdisciplinary and unknown images in sound, film and theatre.

Musicwise, spherical surfaces get mixed with housy and breaking beats and influences from diverse genres, such as pop, jungle, rnb and trance.

About the exhibition:

The current exhibition Fabric of Dreams. Towards a Technodiversity raises the question of how we can escape the singular vision of technology and its rather definitive configuration as a fully automated machine intelligence. According to the Western conception, technology is described as a history of development on the way to progression and expansion, be it in a dystopian or utopian implementation. Drawing on Foucault's discourse analysis of knowledge systems, philosopher Yuk Hui argues for different epistemes in relation to the narrative of technology, which he calls Technodiversity.

Program Overview

17:00–24:00

Exhibition tour with artists and curators

Panel with:

• Kristoffer Gansing 


• Tung-Hui Hu


• Luiza Prado de O. Martins


• Moderation: Clemens Apprich & Elisabeth Falkensteiner

Performance Beyond My Skin
A project by Flavia Mazzanti,
produced by Immerea, Performers: Olivia Hild, Imani Rameses, Sound: Brootworth

Sound Performance by
Obaro Ejimiwe

DJ-Set by
isocialbutterflyy

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