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LAND PROJECT / Mediated Motion
Archetypes of mediated motion across a distance and in relation to the screen
Lisa Parra ( @lisaparra ) & Daniel Pinheiro
Invited to perform at Festival DDD (Portugal) this encounter of LAND PROJECT was shown on April 26 connecting Casa da Arquitectura (Matosinhos, Portugal) and LaMaMa rehearsal studios (New York, US). Throughout February and April, Lisa and Daniel, picked up on the methodologies of their networked practice to develop yet another activation of a movement duet across a distance.
more information and video documentation here
more information on LAND PROJECT: http://landproject.tumblr.com
‘MEDIATED MOTION / LAND PROJECT - Moving Across Screens (Feb - Apr 2019)’ here
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Distant Feeling(s) #7 | December 7th, 6PM GMT+1
Distant Feeling(s) 7th, activated on December 7th, 2019, was the third annual activation of the Distant Feeling(s) project, inviting all interested to participate in a shared moment of togetherness across a distance.
Using the internet’s potential of connectivity as a means to reflect on the constraints and limitations of that precise quality, DF has become (since its first iteration in 2015*) a participatory event in which through silence and provoking an inwards movement by the closing of the eyes while connected, which aims to highlight the relational aspect that is (supposedly) intrinsic to the idea of network. Throughout its various activations, from a closed environment between the artists Annie Abrahams, Lisa Parra and Daniel Pinheiro – where the main focus was to attempt sensing the existence and presence of the others while being physically distant, without speaking and with eyes closed – to it becoming a practice shared with an audience, and transforming into an open event since 2017, the project has addressed, cumulatively, the characteristics of the medium/infrastructure to reflect upon them, producing an archive of documentation of the various moments where each one and all work as a visual metaphor of the condition(ing) of connectivity as it is installed in our lives.
A silent, yet sentient, relational encounter, materialized as a telematic embrace where nothing seems to happen and where the lack of apparent action has transformed into the transposition of the concept of agency and a potential way for fighting alienation.
In the more recent activations of the project, a common fact has been the awareness of how machines and the surrounding environments from the different remote locations become present* while the bodies perform a sort of absentia while electricity powers this moment of communion. Where and how are we (always) while the network is functioning?
As it continues to develop, iteration after iteration, whether it is through the annual re-activations or in specific contexts it becomes clear that it is a form of researching togetherness through the internet as a way to counter its fallacy, the promise of a interconnected world where concepts of time and physical space dissipate** (an ubiquitous spatio-temporal unity), which in fact drives today the (im)possibility of collective strength/power. It is a provocation to the role of networked conversations as a practice for activism emptied from specific purpose, again, assuming the role of symbolizing a situation of engaging in different possibilities of triggering collective agency.
Can we find novelty in an already established system, and act from within, towards (an)other purpose(s)?
Distant Feeling(s) highlights in its genesis and continuity the need to feel/sense presence and suggests a pragmatical approach for reshaping a consciousness on kinship resorting to available technological tools which have been transforming its meaning.
“Silence is hard to find…” Camille Renarhd mentions at the end of DF#7 and it is through this quest for silence where machines, responsible for allowing the connection across a distance, “speak” louder and the contemporary restlessness is confronted in this model of interaction between humans and machines. It is not a proposition for a revolution nor a resolution for an evident relational crisis, it is an experience on connectivity and its fundamentals.
The relational revolution is already far along.
At the same time, it is clearly in crisis. – Time Reborn p. xxix
Distant Feeling(s) is a project initiated by Annie Abrahams, Lisa Parra and Daniel Pinheiro
Participants of Distant Feeling(s) #7: Camille Renarhd, Daniel Pinheiro, Muriel Piqué, Annie Abrahams, Bérénice Belpaire, Nicolaas Schmidt, Christine Develotte, Sandra Sarala, Alan Sondheim, Paul Hughes, Nerina Cocchi, Frans Van Lent, Ariane Cassimiro, Frédérique Santune, Camille Bloomfield, Jonathan Chomko, Csenge Kolozsvári, Sabrina Kwong, Ienke Kastelein, Molly Hankwitz, David Cox
Performing Absence… to master the medium?!
Merci pour cela Annie, pour ce miroir que tu nous tends vers nous-même, en plus de nous ouvrir des fenêtres et des portes vers les autres. - Agathe Herry (online participant of Distant Feeling(s) #6) - more reactions here
In Distant Feeling(s) #6 once again a space was activated - a space which opens from different locations into an online communicative interface where the participants rest for 15 minutes with eyes closed aware of their individual presence aligned (in time) with others.
This iteration of Distant Feeling(s) is mounted with the recording of a remix of comments - a text containing the key elements which previous participants made note of after entering this space.
As a moment of suspension the project takes the form of a possible meditative process on our situation while being constantly overflowed with electronic acceleration; in this specific case it was performed to a live audience in Malta as part of Video Vortex #12 on September 26 (2019), the event itself being one concerned with the aesthetics and politics of online video.
A telematic embrace where nothing seems to happen and where the lack of action is precisely its potential as an agency tool towards fighting alienation and perform a possible form of absentia within the network, while the network is in function. So highlighting presence and togetherness as main aspects of social interaction only possible when refraining the imposed ubiquitous spatio-temporal unity that is imposed by technology.
Distant Feeling(s) is a project by Annie Abrahams ( @e-stranger), Lisa Parra ( @lisaparra) and Daniel Pinheiro ( @daniel-pinheiro)
[full] video documentation of “Mediated Motion / LAND PROJECT” (raw edit)
Lisa Parra and Daniel Pinheiro
Performance showing on April 26, 2019
Invited to perform at Festival DDD (Dias da Dança), dance festival in Portugal on April 26 2019, thanks to the invitation of Flávio Rodrigues (artist and curator of DDD OUT*), LAND PROJECT continued to be developed, between February and April in different encounters exploring the concept and notion of “mediated motion” as a form to investigate possibilities of common action at a distance. The encounter aimed, through its development, at exploring possibilities of uniting the remote spaces/locations – Casa da Arquitectura (Matosinhos, Portugal) and LaMaMa Rehearsal Studios (New York, US) – and connecting the outdoors/public space ( @daniel-pinheiro) with the indoors/intimate space ( @lisaparra ) {an idea to be developed further into the future}.
While exploring the concept of (re)-mediation, the setup where the performance took place in Portugal and where audience was expected to be present was structured so that the spectator could choose from which perspective to watch the live interaction and some artifacts, such as materials tested for video projection purposes and a playlist of the previous encounters/rehearsals leading to this presentation.
*DDD OUT is a section of the festival, coordinated by Balleteatro which curates dance works to be performed in the public space.
Read more about the process here.
Visual documentation here.
