folktales from the future

"Folktales from the Future"

Duration: 60 min

Dates: 1st of July 2017

Venue: Studio 1. Uferstudios

An internet pioneer developer wrote “I am always reminded of how small changes in the details of a digital design can have profound unforeseen effects on the experiences of the humans who are playing with it. The slightest change in something as seemingly trivial as the ease of use of a button can sometimes completely alter behavior patterns.”* I feel that my interaction with computers has shaped my self, my sleep, my movement, my dancing, my imagination, my dreams, my relationships. I attempt in Machine of Grace to evoke fantastical strategies to reimagine the bond between the computer and me. In this performance, the rounded edges of my white Macbook welcome me softly, inviting silky smooth intoxication. We cohabitate in a shared fantasy of narcissism and nourishing dependence, and partake in divine cannibalis**

*Jaron Laniers “You are not a gadget, a manifesto”

** text partially written by Kai Evans

Folktales from the future is lecture-performance-video-instalations and a photo production about a posible interaction of technology in-between nature, soma and art.

Camara, editing and photo: Ailin Formia

Costume design: Kai Merke

Set and light design: Kai Merke and Alejandro Karasik

Mentoring: Claire Vivianne Sobottke, Katja Münker

Text: Lucia Disalvo

Performace and concept: Alejandro Karasik

Thanks: Lea Kieffer, Julian Weber, Liselotte Singer, SoDA students 2016-2018

Folk tales from the future is the the Research Presentacion of the MA Solo/Dance/Authorship. HZT Berlin.