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by Quimera Rosa & Transnoise

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Performance Sight & Sound Festival - Science Faction- Montreal

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Performance Sight & Sound Festival - Science Faction- Montreal

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workshop the body as a sound post gender instrument day 2

cyborgs versus medieval fighters 

 Sight and Sound Festival 2014 : SCIENCE FACTION.

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the body as a sound post gender instrument / Montreal

Sight and Sound Festival 2014 : SCIENCE FACTION

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http://printempsnumerique.info/en/witching-media-becoming-witch/

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Sight + Sound | Science Faction

Sight & Sound (6e édition), c'est un festival aux nombreux échanges riches entre vous et une trentaine d'événements, installations, performances, ateliers, tables rondes, conférences, pour vivre l'art numérique à Montréal. Cette année, il a pour nom « Science Faction » et nous allons explorer ensemble, du 20 au 25 mai 2014, le monde de la science fiction. Légalités marginales, futurs en mutation, déliquescence homme-machine, cyborgisme radical...

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  21:00 - 23:00 École des médias – UQAM

AKLR 2.0 est un projet de recherche et de performance audiovisuelle qui a pour but de développer un cyborg « akelarre » vivant. La performance étudie le potentiel de la sorcellerie à une époque « biopower ». Une science-fiction où les plantes chantent, les corps mutent et les machines font l’amour. Les assemblées de sorcières (akelarres) donnent lieu à un ensemble de pratiques et de manipulations de symboles, de corps, d’objets, de signes et d’environnements menant à une modification des mondes. L’akelarre n’est pas une démonstration de ce que les sorcières sont, ni un endroit où les participants font semblant d’être des sorcières : l’akelarre est sorcière en devenir. Lors de la performance, Quimera Rosa & Transnoisedéveloppent un cyborg avec des prothèses et technologies diverses. En prenant des identités hybrides, les artistes tentent de fuir une liste infinie de dichotomies: naturel/artificiel, machine/humain, femme/homme, homo/hétéro, vie/art, science/pré-technologie, etc. AKLR 2.0 est une étude audiovisuelle de relations alternatives entre les humains, les plantes et les machines, ainsi qu’entre les corps, les prothèses et les données. Les sons sont générés par des capteurs sensoriels, des microcontacts et des synthétiseurs faits à la main qui révèlent l’inaudible du corps et des plantes. akelarrecyborg.tumblr.com 

TAGS

Futur alternatif, Amorphisme, Androïde, Audio, Audio/visuel,Binaire, Biorobotique, Cerveau-Ordinateur, Co-veillance,Conscience Informatique, Cybernétique, Cyberpunk, Cyborg,Dystopie, Technologie fictionnelle, Histoire future, Homme-Machine, Système intégré, Laboratoire, Être en réseau, Asexué,Système participatif, Performance, Post-Apocalyptique, Post-genre, Post-génétique, Replicant, Système reproducteur,Rétrofuturisme, Robot, Sexualité, Shapeshifting, Réalité simulée, Fiction spéculative, Médias spéculatifs, Storytelling,Synthèse, Biologie synthétique, Techno-déchets, Video

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Video de promoción de la perfo Akelarre Cyborg...pronto video completo de la performance de Barcelona para todxs las del crowdfunding. 

gracias Shu Lea Cheang por la edición!

Gracias Majo y Lucy por ofrecer sus ojos biónicos !

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http://sabbat-berlin.tumblr.com/

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next performance in Berlin

July 14 - 20:30 

@ Panke

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Empezamos el Berlin Tour en Festival Fashion X. Galería Alpha Nova. Berlin. 03 - 04/07 Workshop “El cuerpo como instrumento sonoro post-género”, 06/07 Performance “Akelarre Cyborg”. 13/07 Mesa Redonda

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Fotos performance Barcelona, por María Berzosa

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Fotos por María Berzosa, performance en Barcelona. Mayo. Hangar

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Fotos performance "Akelarre Cyborg", Barcelona.

Fotos por María Berzosa

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Streaming Jornadas PostOp1a

Charla "QUIMERAS A LA HOGERA "(Postporno y brujeria)

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The Struggle Against the Rebel Body

It is in this context that we must also read the attack against witchcraft and against that magical view of the world which, despite the efforts of the Church, had continued to prevail on a popular level through the Middle Ages.

At the basis of magic was an animistic conception of nature that did not admit to any separation between matter and spirit, and thus imagined the cosmos as a living organism, populated by occult forces, where every element was in “sympathetic” relation with the rest. In this perspective where nature was viewed as a universe of signs and signatures, marking invisible affinities that had to be deciphered (Foucault 1973: 26–27), every element — herbs, plants, metals, and most of all the human body — hid virtues and powers peculiar to it. Thus, a variety of practices were designed to appropriate the secrets of nature and bend its powers to the human will. From palmistry to divination, from the use of charms to healing by sympathy, magic opened a vast number of possibilities. There was magic designed to win card games, to play unknown instruments, to become invisible, to win somebody’s love, to gain immunity in war, to make children sleep (Thomas 1971).To eradicate these practices was a necessary condition of the capitalist rationalization of work, since magic appeared as an instrument to obtain what one wanted without work,that is, as refusal of work in action.

Magic, moreover, rested upon a qualitative conception of space and time that precluded a regularization of the labor process. For how could the new entrepreneurs impose regular work patterns on a proletariat anchored in the belief that there are lucky and unlucky days, that is, days in which one can travel and others in which one should not move from home, days in which to marry and others in which every enterprise should be cautiously avoided? Equally incompatible with the capitalist work-discipline was a conception of the cosmos that attributed special powers to the individual: the magnetic look, the power to make oneself invisible, to leave one’s body, to chain the will of others by magical incantations.

  The idea of transforming this lazy being, who dreamt of life as a long Carnival, into an indefatigable worker, must have seemed a desperate enterprise. It meant to literally “turn the world upside down,” but in a totally capitalist fashion where inertia to command would be transformed into lack of desire and autonomous will, where vis erotica would become vis lavorativa (labor-power), and need would be experienced only as lack, abstinence, and eternal indigence.

But regardless of the dangers magic posed, the bourgeoisie had to combat its power also because it undermined the principle of individual responsibility, as magic placed the determinants of social action in the realm of the stars, out of their reach and control.

  What died was the concept of the body as a receptacle of magical powers that had prevailed in the medieval world. In reality, it was destroyed. For in the background of the new philosophy we find a vast initiative by the state, that branded what the philosophers classified as “irrational” as a true form of crime.

  extracts: Silvia Federici,The Great Caliban,The Struggle Against the Rebel Body

the whole text here

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Performance en Barcelona

Presentación del proyecto que comenzamos en Bolivia. Con nuevas mutaciones y con nuevos cuerpos ahora en Barcelona

Os esperamos!

22 de mayo a las 21 hrs en la sala Ricson de Hangar

Para reservar entradas [email protected]

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Recensión sobre Akelarre Cyborg

Escrito sobre Akelarre Cyborg de Miriam Solá y Pedro Ortuño en la revista de investigación "Arte y política de identidad"

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