The Future Arrives At All Costs

...will it cost us our bodies?

Maybe, due to much of ones daily choreography being micromanaged by algorithmic direction, Our bodies are only ours when we're dancing, but what dancing?
Some dancing makes our bodies decidedly NOT ours.
So we need to structure a dance. To use the technology of choreography to craft a form, a verb, a dance, that will give our bodies back to us. Not as a tether, as a home. The place of experience. The space we take up to facilitate being.
With.

This is some dancing we have been doing to continue thinking through this situation;

future 1

We have sent our bodies to ourselves in the future.

The Before Times

We sent our bodies to ourselves in the future. They have just arrived. We have been without them for so long that we can't just jump back in. There is a procedure of rahabituation. It happens in a group so that we can also remember how to interface.

" We sent our bodies into the future (from ourselves in the past). It was the only way. Now after all this time they are beginning to arrive and we are taking up residence in them once more. The procedure is interesting. It feels like a kind of calibration. This is my body, but I have lived so long outside of it. It feels familiar but not immediately habitual, habitable, like my habitat…

So how to get myself together. Into this body. And then how to be be together with other people in their bodies.

It looks (from the outside) remarkably like dancing. Movement, driven by impulse or curiosity. A pursuit of novelty or articulation / reawakening of skills being remembered. And it is done all together, that we know ourselves mediated thought peers and fellows rather than through reflections or captures.

My body once again becomes the substrate of being. It is once again the site of experience. "

the score

Rehabituation procedure - which body am I in?

• Watch each other
• Feel the face
• Try to execute form - manually, with hands

• Once we know which bodies we’re in - bear witness to the rehabituation arc.

(Romain can go on his journey. Then Raygun, then matt.)

future 2

The Chamber for Thinking

Being in the Chamber For Thinking

Vision is the only sense still in daily use, we observe and control interfaces with our eyes. The chamber for thinking is the expression of physical skill towards epiphany made possible by chemical, neurological sensory actuation.

" A technology lost. (Physical intelligence through sensuality as base substrate for worlding).

How to actualise the body, the physical intelligence of emotion through chemical response to neurological integration and use. Beyond optimisation instrumentalised movement. Ultimate skill that is not for any other reason than the pursuit of pleasure at executing that skill. "

references

"we perceive with our whole bodies. And, depending on whether we stand, sit or lie down, we will come to inhabit wholly different worlds." - PG 100 Edward Slopek - Bodies of Art

the score

Reactivate your senses. Enjoy them by savouring the execution of physical skill.

Romain - Ride the wave of the Orchestra Raygun - Chill. POW!

future 3

What can humans do that nothing else can?

I groove therefore I am (in a human body (for now))

We located the groove.
It was in the human body. (this whole time)
because we now live in a consciousness-swarm and slip frictionlessly between bodies (human, synthetic and otherwise) people began leveraging the ability to achieve the groove state as a kind of Turing test for being in a human body. Often the human body is not the right for the job at hand.
A groove state check is performed (by oneself or infront of friends) to test if you are in a human body.
A CaptchA of the future.

• groove

• dance

• flow

the score

Generate and sit in the groove.

here we are, dancing our bodies into the future.

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Written in 台北， 台灣。 Continued in Cadigal/Sydney.

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How will we take our bodies with us into the future?