[dance-tech] REVERSO in PORTUGAL - Pangender Technopolitics


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_____ARTES______TECNOLOGÍA_____PENSAMIENTO CRÍTICO_____ACCIÓN POLÍTICA
__género y sexualidad__transculturalidad__ecología y urbanismo__conflictos 
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Asociación Transdisciplinar REVERSO - Presidente/Director: Jaime del Val
Tel:  687 558 436 _-_ email: jaimedelval@xxxxxxxxxxx      -     www.reverso.org 






REVERSO in Portugal

organised by FABRICA DE MOVIMENTOS - http://www.fabricademovimentos.pt/

Metaformance: ANTIBODIES of surveillance and control_MICRODANCES - followed by 
Conference
12th November 2008 at 21'30 in TEATRO AVEIRENSE - AVEIRO 
http://artes.ucp.pt/artes_digitais/index.php/component/content/article/21-frontpublic/35-hightechnomovement
 
http://www.teatroaveirense.pt
An intervention of the pangender cyborg in the whole space of the Teatro 
Aveirense, followed by a conference/face to face with the audience. 
http://www.reverso.org/Anticuerpos-microdanzas.htm + 
http://www.reverso.org/Anticuerpos-DISOLUCION.htm

Conference: PANGENDER TECHNOPOLITICS 
13th November 2008 at 15'00-16'30 in ESAP - Escola Superior Artística do Porto 
- http://www.esap.pt/
 
Workshop: 6th NOMAD WORKSHOP OF THE TECHNOLOGIES OF THE BODY
- PANGENDER TECHNOPOLITICS 
15th-16th November 2008 10'00 - 18'00 in FEUP - Faculdade de Engenharia do 
Porto ESAP - 12 hours - Language: English
http://www.fe.up.pt/si/noticias_geral.ver_noticia?P_NR=8505
http://www.fe.up.pt/


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ANTIBODIES OF SURVEILLANCE _ MICRODANCES

a techno-guerrilla of the pangender body


a transmedia metaformance 


by

REVERSO___JaiVal


 

Concept and development: Jaime del Val & OLINTO
Performers: Jaime del Val 
Sound and visual composition, space-design and texts : Jaime del Val
Computer Programming: Jaime del Val based on a programme by Gregorio García 
Karman
Attrezzo: Higuerasarte
Production and Hardware: REVERSO


 

ANTIBODIES OF SURVEILLANCE __MICRODANCES is a transmedia metaformance 
(performance-installation-intervention-architecture-instrument-process-metabody)
 that uses wireless micro surveillance cameras on the naked body as interface 
to generate cross-media, analogue-digital, interactual, intersensory and 
emergent environments, liquid and poetic spaces of the body, which subvert the 
technology of surveillance and the camera in order to question implicit 
mechanisms of power and control, to defy the categories of gender and 
sexuality, and produce a (meta)body of relational intensities, expanded and 
diffuse, pangender and metasexual, an Antibody that defies the viral mechanisms 
of signification, control and standardisation in the latecapitalist 
market-society.



http://www.reverso.org/Anticuerpos-microdanzas.htm

http://www.reverso.org/Anticuerpos-DISOLUCION.htm



 

(6th) Nomad Workshop of the Technologies of the Body

PANGENDER TECHNOPOLITICS 

Beyond the performative: Critical approaches to the body, art and technology. 

 

in Porto (Portugal)- 14th-15th November  2008

 

Directed by: JaiVal (Jaime del Val)  - REVERSO

Duration: 12 hours

Number of participants: max. 40  (Approx.)

Language: English

 

Introduction

 

The Nomad Workshop of the Technologies of the Body is a transdisciplinary 
initiative of education, production, exchange and debate of REVERSO in the 
convergence of arts (performance, dance, video, electroacoustics, architecture, 
urban interventions, internet) new technologies, critical thinking and 
political action. From performance to interactive dance, from life 
electroacoustics to virtual architecture, from software and hardware hacking to 
musical instruments and vocal techniques, from posthuman amplified bodies to 
queer theory, from postcolonial studies to cyberfeminism, from gay-lesbian 
politics to transgender and intersex movements, from internet to urban 
interventions, from urban speculation to ecology.

 

The workshop proposes a critical look into the ways in which communication and 
information technologies craft our affects and desire, our identity, sexuality 
and subjectivity, within specific regimes of power and will explore ways to 
subvert such technologies in the context of transdisciplinary performance & 
technology projects, in particular through the use of surveillance cameras as 
interfaces on the naked body.

 

The workshop will explore transdisciplinary artistic practice in the 
convergence of performance, installation, urban intervention and other mixed 
media, with brief introductions to software Max-MSP-jitter and the production 
of interactive systems with rare interfaces used as extensions of the body and 
the subject. We will take a brief critical look at a number of branches from 
contemporary critical theory and propose a number pf philosophical tools with 
which to rethink technology, the body, the subject and social interaction. The 
work of JaiVal-REVERSO will be introduced and practical demos will be made. The 
participants will be able to experiment the "Microdances" technique through 
improvisation with surveillance cameras on the body, and will also be able to 
briefly present for discussion their own projects. 

 

Pangender Technopolitics

 

Technology produces our identity, our gender, our status  as sovereign subjects 
or abject subalternities in terms of sexuality, class, race, age, health and 
bodily form, produces the ways in which these are socially articulated as 
political forms of differentiation and instruments of power of a disciplinary 
and normative social framework that has become merely instrumental in 
latecapitalist times. 

 

Latecapitalism can be seen as a hidden form of totalitarian society in which 
the market operates upon us through giving form to our affects and desires, 
behind the façade of democracies, nation states and sovereign subjects, 
inducing an unprecedented standardisation of bodies and affects, through the 
dissemination of technologies of leisure and communication that, behind their 
innocent aspect, are forming us and assimilating us as instruments of the 
latecapitalist machine.

 

How does this crafting of affect and desire happen? How can we counteract such 
power mechanisms? How can we invert and subvert the ways in which technology 
forms our affect and desire? How can we articulate consistent forms of 
resistance to such implicit and hidden forms of domination?

 

We will look into ways of destabilizing the modes of affective production that 
operate on us through technology, in the context of transmedia and metamedia 
performance projects, in the convergence of dance, video, electroacoustics, 
architecture, internet, street interventions and critical theory. 
Transdisciplinary techno-artistic-philosophical research will thus become a 
political instrument to counteract the new secret forms of domination in 
latecapitalist societies.

 

Media arts have produced a large diversity of possibilities to redefine 
embodied experience altogether and offer an open framework for the redefinition 
of technology, communication, relational architectures and social 
articulations, yet the political and aesthetic potentials of this 
transdisciplinary domain are largely unexplored. On the other hand 
cyberfeminist, queer, transgender and postporn movements have generated a 
diversity of tactics for counteracting gender normativity, which however show 
some limitations with regard to the way in which they reify materialist and 
cartesian frameworks of representation. 

 

The workshop will offer a diversity of philosophical, technological and 
aesthetic tools for the reinvention of oneself as a body, beyond conventions of 
subjectivity and identity. It will propose ways to undo gender binary 
normativity and sexuality divides (male-female, heterosexual-homosexual, 
private-public) through radical interventions in the technologies that 
constitute our identities (the camera), and propose a pangender, 
post-anatomical, relational metabody, as an architecture of intensities that 
defies articulations of the social in terms of organism and fixed structure.

 

How I project myself into the world through intensities (gestures, sounds...), 
how we project each onto one another constituting common intensities (the city, 
the territory, sexuality, group or family relations) is also what reproduces 
old forms of reality or produces new forms. We will study radical interventions 
into non-verbal communication as means of producing new reality, new forms of 
relationality that don't rely upon the reproduction of normative structures, 
that don't attempt to represent, simulate or reproduce, thus going beyond the 
concept of performance into the realm of metaformance and metaformativity.

 

In particular the use of surveillance cameras on the naked body will be 
proposed as example of ways for decomposing the anatomy of the body, its 
representation, signification and structure, in the context of interactive 
systems and performance, as well as diverse forms of intervention that go 
beyond traditional disciplinary divides: in the streets, in the internet, in 
private houses...

The work developed in recent years by JaiVal-REVERSO will be an example from 
which to discuss technical, aesthetical, philosophical and political questions 
as an instigation for the projects of the participants (theoretical, artistic, 
technological or political), that will also be discussed during the workshop.

 

The workshop is addressed to: professionals, students and wider audience 
interested in performance, dance & technology, media arts, life 
electroacoustics, critical theory (queer, posthuman, poscolonial, postporn, 
poststructuralist theories), social work, communication theories and 
technologies, non verbal communication and other related fields.

 

 

PROGRAMME (provisional):

 

1º DAY:

·        Introductions [30 min.]

·        Presentation of works by JaiVal_REVERSO [90 min.]

·        Critical Theory - Pangender Technopolitics: from post-queer, 
posthuman, postcolonial and postporn to intensive bodies and the production of 
affect in latecapitalism - tecnopower - new empires - neoliberal panacoustics 
and panoptics - post-anatomical bodies - politics of affect and radical ecology 
of the body - READINGS [2 hours]

·        Practice - How to build a Metabody (1): performance & technology - the 
instrument-interactive system and introduction to Max-MSP-jitter - video 
surveillance systems applied to the body  - image analysis and processing - 
voice processing in real time, spatialisation and vocal techniques - history of 
interfaces of gestural control of sound, from traditional instruments to 
hyperinstruments  [2 hours]

 

2º DAY:

·        Critical Theory - Pangender Technopolitics: from post-queer, 
posthuman, postcolonial and postporn to intensive bodies and the production of 
affect in latecapitalism - tecnopower - new empires - neoliberal panacoustics 
and panoptics - post-anatomical bodies - politics of affect and radical ecology 
of the body - READINGS [1 hours]

·        Presentations of projects by the participants [2 hours]

·        Practice - How to build a Metabody (2): proximity and relation - 
non-verbal communication - contact and improvisation - microdances - 
experimenting with surveillance cameras on the body - forms of intervention (in 
the street, in the internet, in private houses in closed spaces) and final 
improvisation.  [3 hours]



http://www.reverso.org/TTC.htm



 






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