metakimosphere no. 2

[documentary of the installation]

Excerpts from Metakimosphere no.2 

DAP-Lab’s performances July 22-25, 2015 @ Medialab Prado (Spain) during Metatopia International Metabody Forum Madrid.

DAP-Lab’s performance is directed by choreographer/media artist Johannes Birringer and fashion designer/art director Michèle Danjoux.

DAP-Lab’s international ensemble includes Vanessa Michielon (choreographer/dancer), Miri Lee (choreographer/dancer), Azzie McCutcheon (choreographer/dancer), Jonathan Reus (electronic artist), and Christopher Bishop (network/software artist). This performance installation was created collaboratively with a team of young architects from Hyperbody (TUDelft) who developed the [S]caringami prototype. Credits to the Hyperbody team: Anisa Nachett, Alessandro Giacomelli, Giulio Mariano, Yizhe Guo & Xiangting Meng.

Project website: http://people.brunel.ac.uk/dap/metaki… © DAP-Lab.

Metabody website: http://metabody.eu/

Metabody is a collaborative European project (2013-2017) that works to redefine bodies in media, performance and design in less reductionist ways than is usual in current information technologies. Metabody develops new architectures which behave like living organisms that have an auditory, visual, and tactile sensory quality, with subtly changing states and affordances, they can be worn and breathed, felt and imagined, transported and taken off.

Metabody emphasizes the openness and indeterminacy of embodied expressions as a key factor for a sustainable society. This project foregrounds the need for a new politics. The workshop & performance laboratory probes troubling interpretations of the increasing unrestrainment of capital in our current era, and capitalism’s impact on all social-economic, cultural, creative, and educational sectors in a shared developed world now expanded by massive migration and refugee movement. The sustainability of democracy is an urgent theme for all those in the performing arts/creative fields & current political atmosphere becoming intensely aware of the multiplication of realities (virtualization; networked infrastructures; diasporas) and the tightening of our bodies into technological environments.

Featured artists in performance 2015-2016 include:

Metabody Partners: Jaime del Val, Cristian García (Reverso); Johannes Birringer, Michèle Danjoux, Yoko Ishiguro, Vanessa Michielon, Aggeliki Margeti, Azzie McCutcheon, Hae-in Song, Helenna Ren, Christopher Bishop, Seeta Indrani, Martina Reynolds, Elisabeth Sutherland, Hongye Deng, Waka Arai, Hongye Deng, Sahsa Pitale, and Neal Spowage (DAP-Lab)

Participating Artists: Salud López (Spain) Nora O‘ Murchú (Ireland), Randall Packer, Galina Mihaleva (Singapore), Angeline Young (Arizona, USA), Maria Kapsali (UK), Simon East (UK), Janice Jones (AUS), Javier Aparicio/Javi F. Gorosti (Spain), Larissa Ferreira (Brasil) Caroline Yan Zheng (UK), Paula Aida Guzzanti, Martin Devek and Tristan Clutterbuck (Northern Ireland), Laura Potrovic (France), Federico Viso (UK), Kathleen McDermot (USA) Isabelle Arvers (France), Oji Obioma (Scotland), Jung In Jung (UK), Peggy Reynolds (UK), Anna Troisi (UK), at al.