The performance “how-to-do-speech-with-taqsim” adresses the current power relations of speech positions, which we are experiencing recently worldwide in the polarization of communities, prejudices, origin, ideologies and ethics. “taqsim” as a form of musical improvisation, that usually precedes the performance of a traditional Arabic, Greek, Middle Eastern, or Turkish musical composition. The artist will therefore perform […]
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contagious species – animal speaking
The work is about questions of participation and felt powerlessness due to the increasing algorithmization of our realities of life. As Luciana Parisi describes it with the concept of algorithmic environments, the work tries to escape the dichotomies of cultural nature, man-machine and tries to oppose a third figure, a figure of transformation and hybridization. […]
Continue Readingbecome contagious symbiobot : reclaim the 12th camel
«become contagious symbiobot : reclaim the 12th camel» is a 20-minute, regularly repeating collective performance and installation. The course of the performance is divided into scenes performed by a multitude of bots and potential visitors.. The process is framed by a fictional encounter between a performer and Heinz von Foerster, in which an unsettled relationship […]
Continue Reading{reclaim the twelfth camel} < code of practice
“{reclaim the twelfth camel} < code of practice” focuses on a camel as a figure of thought that transforms and morphs several times during a performance. Different ways of speaking and acting frame the starting point: the code representation of a camel, which is at the same time text, image, program and narrative. This image […]
Continue Readingunfolding agency: strategies of excription
2015 «unfolding agency: stategies of exscription #1» ist eine performative Aufführung in 5 Szenen, bei der es um das Verhältnis von Körper und Schrift geht. Ein Verhältnis, das im Zeitalter digitaler Medien ein strittiger Raum ist. Digitale Medien greifen immer stärker und unsichtbar in unser Leben ein – und das mit dem Versprechen auf Freiheit […]
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Zürich Station 21. 10.4-16.5. 2015 paradise now 2.0 is a spacial audio-video-installation based on a historical film excerpt that questions the hierarchies of performativity and text culture. The artwork starts out with a historical perspective concerning a discourse on text and body within performance studies that is regarded as an area of social and political […]
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Book launch with Gerald Raunig, with performative readings and interventions by Niki Kubaczek, Isabell Lorey and Alexander Tuchacek. Please bring a fm-receiver with you if you have one of these! In this way you support the interventions and can actively participate yourself! HTML5 audio not supported
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chmod +x exscript body Zürich Station 21. WHY I CHANGED MY NAME TO MARVIN GAYE. Von Zuschreibungen und Entschreibungen 7.11.2014 A human voice reads a short sections of Nancys Text “Corpus”. The Voice follows the text, automatically written in a Unix Shell Termial. The Voice stutters, hissis, hangs, sings and freezes. Sometimes it seems […]
Continue ReadingParticipation, Sharing, Being Shared: Codes and Scripts of the Ambivalent
workshop steirischer herbst: herbst Academy 2014 Promises of self-empowerment and participation are integral to digital media. It is not only since Edward Snowden’s disclosures that sharing has presented itself as something ambivalent: social networks have created the potential for democratic public opinion and at the same time greater surveillance. This space between sharing and being […]
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lecture performance, herbst academy 2014, steirischer herbst >> become contagious symbiobot : reclaim the 12th camel >> reclaim the twelfth camel The twelfth camel is all at once, an image, a text and a program. The twelfth camel is a figure of thought, which oscillates between character, code and physicality. If you move closer, you notice […]
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