The Future Arrives At All Costs

...will it cost us our bodies?

This text was arrived at via dancing to iterate future sci-fi realities and their affect on our socialised physicality.
The core dancing and thinking team included;

• Romain Hassanin
• Bgirl Raygun / Dr Rachael Gunn
• M@

With cameo dancing and thinking from;

• Sophia van Gent
• Bboy Sam (Samual Free)

and outside eye feedback from;

• Angela Goh

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 will structure one fit for purpose. We will 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, but 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.
And they have just arrived.
We’ve been living without them for a fair while.
We will follow the rehabitation protocol to mitigate the risk of disassociation.

Curiously, this process can sometimes look reminiscent of dancing.

( My body once again becomes the substrate of being.
It is once again the site of experience.
(Not every body makes it) )

for the dancers

part 1: The arrival
part 2: Calibration

future 2

Interface Collapse

Being in the Chamber For Thinking

All experience and all agency now comes through the eyes.
Our other (many more than 5) senses have become obsolete biotech in the context of daily life.
But they are still called upon when particularly sophisticated or complex problems need to be understood, considered, interrogated.
When this happens, we actualise - through the pleasure and effort of executing physical skill - to enter the chamber for thinking.

Further explanation

In the future, vision is the only sense still in daily use, we interface exclusively through our eyes.

In the pursuit of higher level thinking, we deploy the rest of our bio-tech ie, the other (up to 12) sensors of a human body.

The chamber for thinking is a space conjured for distributed thinking across your multiple human bodies. The chamber for thinking is a space conjured for insight,

This sometimes looks like dancing.

Leveraging the genius made possible by chemical, neurological sensory actualisation.

(you get your body together and go into the chamber to reactivate and utilise your own bio-tech to think more vividly)

(A vision-only world has resulted in a technology lost - the Physical intelligence through sensuality as base substrate for worlding).

The chamber for thinking is a dedicated context for the expression of physical skill, towards the epiphany made possible by chemical, neurological sensory actuate.)

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for the dancers

Execute physical skill as protocol to invoke that vast capability of your complex biotech. "

all our senses - mind body complex.

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

future 3

What can humans do that nothing else can?

Living in the swarm.

In the swarm, consciousness moves indiscriminately across the network of machines and bodies.
For a while, you had no way to tell which body you were in at a particular moment in time. Then we found the groove. A phenomena exclusive to human biology.
It generally doesn’t matter which body you are in. We don’t do those “I am not a robot” click boxes anymore.
But if you ever did want to know, just start dancing, and try to find your groove.

further explanation

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.

for the dancers

1. Do the groove game.
2. Do a second round with others.

Groove game = dancing until you find the groove, stabilise the groove. (Do this to various musical styles). When a person decides to return to their seat, all stand and swap seats.

the score

1. outside eyes in group.
2. one stands up and announcing whether they're doing an internal or external check.
3. that person dances until groove state confirms they are in a human body or not.

here we are, dancing our bodies into the future.

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Written in 台北， 台灣。 Continued on Gadigal and Darug lands/Sydney.

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