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. (We danced to music played from MD 💽)
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.
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 have devised a rehabitation protocol to mitigate the risk of disassociation.
Curiously, this process can sometimes look reminiscent of dancing.
further explanation
- 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
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All interfaces have collapsed down to the eyes.
All experience and all agency are reduced to visual-thru-put.
In daily life this is sufficient. However, when particularly sophisticated problems arise we online the rest of our bio-tech - the other (more than 12) sensors of a human body - via the chamber for thinking. A dedicated context to invoke the full genius of embodied understanding. Where the execution of physical skill is instrumentalised as a protocol to unlock epiphany.
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.)
"
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
Living in the swarm.
In the swarm, consciousness moves indiscriminately across the network of bodies (human, synthetic, and otherwise).
For a while there was no way to tell which body you were in.
Then we remembered the groove—a phenomena exclusive to human biology.
People began using the ability to get into the groove as a kind of Turing test.
A body-CAPTCHA.
for the dancers
1. Do the groove game.
2. Do a second round with others.
Groove test protocol = 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.
Written in 台北， 台灣。 Continued on Gadigal and Darug lands/Sydney.