[dance-tech] Fw: Jaime del Val at MIT Medialab - Boston - April 2011
- From: "Jaime del Val" <jaimedelval@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <dance-tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:31:05 +0200
Dear all,
I hope to see some of you al MIT this week,
looking forward to that,
best
Jaime
Jaime del Val - Reverso Institute for Metahuman Technologies www.reverso.org
at
Dance Technology and Circulations of the Social, Version 2.0
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Boston - Massachussets - USA
April 22-23, 2011
presents
Metamedia Metaformance
Metahuman Technologies: Undoing anatomy in capitalism of affects
SHORT ABSTRACT:
I will propose a critique of the accounts of the moving body that pervade both
classical-modern-contemporary dance traditions and
information-communication-control society, in order to propose some
possibilities for a radical redefinition of corporeality, aesthetics and
politics both in relation to dance, the other arts and nature-culture at large,
within a Metahumanistic project of resistance to capitalism of affects in
which, through subversive reappropriations of control technologies, an
amorphous, post-anatomical body is produced that exceeds
cartesian-logocentric-humanistic paradigms, redefining the body as relational
process and reworking all of its normative categories.
LONGER ABSTRACT:
I will propose a critique of the paradigms of the moving body that pervade both
classical-modern-contemporary dance traditions and
information-communication-control society, which reproduce specific
cartesian-logocentric-humanistic conceptions that deal with
framing-distance-exteriority for the production of the spectacular-hiperreal
and of the dualism object-subject as well as fictional-objective. The
parallelism between the stage and the ubiquitous camera-screens of media
culture will aquire new light understood in terms of perceptual anatomies that
reproduce the cartesian split between subject and object, thus producing both
as political fictions. This becomes even more problematic in the field of HCI,
where interfaces tend to assimilate bodies into a regime of affective
production that we will call the Panchoreographic, where movement becomes a key
paradigm for understanding its mechanisms. Dance-technology appears thus as a
realm in which, rather than limitng us to use the given technologies, we may
subvert them and the regime they perpetuate.
The body, understood as relational process, is subject to endless
Amorphogenesis through a redefinition of the relational technologies that
constitute it. This is part of a non-utopian Metahumanistic project for
resistance to capitalism of affects' apparatuses of violence and assimilation.
Metamedia Metaformance is the process of redefinition of relational
technologies, which include perceptual anatomies, that redefine the given
limits between disciplines and perceptual categories in a neverending process
of emergence. Proposing the notion of Intrabodies rather than Interfaces and a
Meta-kinetic art-research instead of dance-choreography, we propose to show the
crucial role of relational movement for the radical redefinition of the entire
humanistic-logocentric-cartesian conception, in a movement away from the stages
(and audiences) of spectacular control society and from linear time-space.
Examples will be given of the Microsexes-Microdances projects of Reverso and
other Metahuman Technologies in which through reappropriation of technologies
of control society the sensory anatomy is transformed towards a Post-anatomical
body, and with it the conditions of possibility of regimes that operate thorugh
identification and form. A devisualisation and a politics of the amorphous
where bodies move in ways that are irreducible to
representation-mapping-identification-signification, undoing the constitutive
limits of gender-sex-race-class-form-identity categories of control.
www.reverso.org
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