Exploratory residency at MadArts, Danya Beach, June-July 2023
cyborg body ~ myth ~ technology
Harbored in the belly of a relic from the future, and meant to be destroyed and rebuilt by robots, the cyborg body materializes testimonies from the cosmos. Its skin buries colonial scars braised in twilight.
‘In my center, a cyborg seed' deals with the organic, algorithmic and the divine, as well our relationship to technology, how we long for it, fear it and dream to become it.
Conceived as a ‘performative exhibition’ marrying performance, audio reactive visuals, video, and installation, this work uses futuristic speculation and myth to restructure how we define technology in relation to ideas of mortality and transcendence.
Inspired by Donna Haraway’s essay 'A Manifesto for Cyborgs', Shelley Jackson’s hypertext story 'Patchwork Girl' and the ancestral oracle of the Pallar Moche, ‘In my center, a cyborg seed’ unfolds across multidisciplinary formats and brings us closer to the nonhuman and otherness, building and deconstructing machines, language and identity. It aims to hack dominant views of the future to make room for alternate visions of the cyborg body we see ourselves becoming.
The performance includes real time interactive projections and is being developed in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team of artists and technologists. It is set to premiere in 2024 and is one of six 2022 Knight New Work winners.
Performers:
Lize-Lotte Pitlo, Britney Tokumoto.