Meta.Morf 2024 \u2013 [up]Loaded Bodies \/ Kj\u00f8pmannsgata Ung Kunst<\/a> <\/span>\/<\/span> Performance April 19 \/ What does it mean to create a truly autonomous machine, independent from human control? And what happens when organs live outside of a body? Perhaps the human body\u2019s only real power is to take on ever changing forms and identities.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cEingeweide\u201d <\/span><\/i>is the staging of a ritual of coalescence. Inhabiting a desolated, surreal landscape, two human bodies become violently entangled with an artificially intelligent (AI) prosthesis, out-of-body organs, relics from computer server farms, and animal remains.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The prosthesis uses AI algorithms to learn in real time how to move, exist and perform on stage. The organs pulsate, leak, and crawl on the floor, bearing traces of the microbial cultures which created them. Sounds from the performers\u2019 muscular activity are amplified and transformed by AI algorithms into a powerful and visceral auditive experience, submerging the spectators.<\/span><\/p>\n The performers\u2019 bodies become, thus, one and multiple, at times asserting, at times misplaced. They are the means of a drastic form of bodily experimentation, where alternate identities emerge from the convergence of human, machine, and micro-organisms. In such a configuration, each element drastically affects the other. Physicality and psyche are meshed up, shaken, and probed.<\/span><\/p>\n A far cry from trans-humanist ideals or techno-phobic claims, \u201c<\/span>Eingeweide\u201d <\/span><\/i>creates its own vocabulary of symbolic meaning, manifesting the relationship between humans, technology, and living-others as a harsh, poetic, and humbling form of intimacy.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cEingeweide\u201d <\/span><\/i>is part of the \u201c<\/span>7 Configurations<\/span><\/a>\u201d cycle (2014-2019), a series of works by Marco Donnarumma on the conflicts surrounding the human body in the era of artificial intelligence (AI).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cEingeweide\u201d, 2018, Evening-length piece for two performers, machine and biomaterials. Photo: Giovanni De Angelis.<\/p><\/div>\n Credits Robotic prosthesis<\/strong> Eingeweide<\/i> is an artwork and a production by Marco Donnarumma co-directed with Margherita Pevere, realized as a part of the 7 Configurations <\/i>cycle ideated and produced by Marco Donnarumma. Eingeweide<\/i> was commissioned by CTM Festival (DE) and realised in the context of Donnarumma\u2019s Fellowship at the Graduiertenschule, Berlin University of the Arts.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n marcodonnarumma.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n margheritapevere.com<\/a> | m-ooo.info<\/a> | frontavacuo.com\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Together with Andrea Familari, Pevere and Donnarumma co-founded the performance group Fronte Vacuo to realize performances made of bodies, symbionts, sounds, machines, and images.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Marco Donnarumma<\/strong> (DE)<\/span> is an artist, performer, inventor, stage director and theorist weaving together contemporary performance, new media art and interactive computer music since the early 2000s. He manipulates bodies and invents machines, crafts choreographies and composes sounds, thus combining disciplines, media and technology into an oneiric, sensual, uncompromising aesthetics. He is internationally acknowledged for solo performances, stage productions and installations that defy genres, and where the body becomes a morphing language to speak critically of ritual, power and technology.<\/span><\/p>\n Touring consistently for the past fifteen years across major and independent theaters, concert halls, parking lots, squats, festivals and museums worldwide, Donnarumma\u2019s work has been shown, among others, at Volkstheater Wien (AT), M\u00fcnchner Kammerspiele (DE), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (DE), NRW Forum (DE), Ming Contemporary Art Museum (CN), Laznia Center for Contemporary Art (PL), Chronus Art Center (CN), ZKM (DE), IRCAM (FR), LABoral (ES), Kontejner (HR), tanzhaus nrw (DE), Romaeuropa Festival (IT), Ars Electronica (AT), Donaufestival (AT), Nemo Biennale\/HeK Basel (FR), musikprotokoll (AT), CTM Festival (DE), transmediale (DE), Panorama Festival (BR).<\/span><\/p>\n Donnarumma holds a Ph.D. in performing arts, computing and body theory from Goldsmiths, University of London. Currently he is an Associate Researcher at the Intelligent Instruments Lab, Reykjavik, while recently he was a Medienkunst Fellow at medienwerk.nrw and PACT Zollverein, Essen. He has held research positions at the Akademie\u00ad f\u00fcr Theater \u00adund Digitalit\u00e4t, Dortmund and at the Berlin University of the Arts in partnership with the Neurorobotics Research Laboratory. His work was funded by European Commission, Goethe-Institut, Berlin Senate, Fonds Darstellende K\u00fcnste, Rockefeller Foundation, British Council and New Media Scotland. His writings are published by MIT Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge, ACM and Springer, amongst others.<\/span><\/p>\n marcodonnarumma.com<\/a><\/span> Header graphics: Giovanni-De-Angelis. Portrait photo of Margherita Pevere: Margarita Kosi.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eingeweide: The 7 Configurations cycle \/
\nStudent NOK 80 \/ Ordinary NOK 160: <\/span>Ticket<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nEingeweide: from the 7 Configurations cycle (2018)<\/span><\/h5>\n
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\nEingeweide<\/strong>
\n<\/i>Concept: Marco Donnarumma<\/span>
\nArtistic direction: Marco Donnarumma, Margherita Pevere<\/span>
\nDramaturgy, choreography: Marco Donnarumma, Margherita Pevere<\/span>
\nPerformers: Marco Donnarumma, Margherita Pevere<\/span>
\nMusic, interaction programming: Marco Donnarumma<\/span>
\nStage design: Marco Donnarumma, Margherita Pevere<\/span>
\nLight design: Andrea Familari<\/span>
\nPerformer\u2019s biofilm mask: Margherita Pevere<\/span>
\nPhysiological computing software and hardware: Marco Donnarumma
\n<\/span>Artwork\u2019s description texts: Marco Donnarumma<\/span>
\nPhotography: Manuel Vason<\/span>
\nLive photography: Giovanni De Angelis, Nada Zgank | Kapelica<\/span>
\nVideo trailer: Marco Donnarumma<\/span>
\nProduction management: Kotryna Slapsinskaite<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span><\/i><\/span>Concept: Marco Donnarumma
\n<\/span>Morphology, engineering: Marco Donnarumma
\n<\/span>Fabrication, AI programming: Marco Donnarumma
\n<\/span>Neurorobotics scientific advice: Prof. Manfred Hild<\/span>
\nScientific support: Neurorobotics Research Lab, Beuth Hochschule, Berlin<\/span>
\nAdditional AI programming: Alberto de Campo<\/span>
\nEngineering design, 3D modelling and 3D printing: Christian Schmidts<\/span>
\nVisual design: Ana Rajcevic
\n<\/span>Biofilm skin: Margherita Pevere<\/span><\/p>\n
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Margherita Pevere<\/strong> (DE\/IT) is an internationally acknowledged artist and researcher working across biological arts and performance with a distinctive visceral signature. Her inquiry hybridizes biotechnology, ecology, queer and death studies to create arresting installations and performances that trail today\u2019s ecological complexity. Her body of work is a blooming garden crawling with genetically edited bacteria, cells, sex hormones, microbial biofilm, blood, slugs, growing plants and decomposing remains. Pevere has completed a practice-based doctorate in Artistic Research at Aalto University, Department of Arts, Design and Architecture. Her work has been shown at Volkstheater Wien (AT), Kiasma Theatre (FI), Kapelica Gallery (SI), KONTEJNER (HR), Bioart Society (FI), Ars Electronica (AT), Bandit Mages (FR), Art Laboratory Berlin (DE), Donaufestival (AT), Casa Viva (MX), Foundation L\u2019Art Pur (SAU), Kunstquartier Bethanien (DE), among others. Currently, she is developing her new project \u201cLament\u201d with the support of the NaturArchy \u2013 Resonances Project at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, and she is artist in residence at the ENLIGHT-TEN+ immunology consortium. Pevere has given a number of talks and lectures that were organized by venues and platforms such as ZKM (DE), Quo Artis Foundation (ES), Disruption Network Lab (DE), and Werkleitz Festival (DE). Pevere is a member of the Finnish Bioart Society and the Queer Death Studies Network, and an affiliated researcher of the Eco- and Bioart Lab. Her work received individual and group grants from the JRC Resonances Project, EMARE Program, Kone Foundation, Finnish National Agency for education, Fonds Darstellende K\u00fcnste: Sonderprogramm Autonom, Koprodutionsfond Berliner Senat f\u00fcr Europa und Kultur, PACT Zollverein, and Berlin Hauptstadtkulturfonds. She was a finalist in the category of Art and Science of Falling Walls, an international science platform awarding scientific breakthroughs, received an Honorable Mention by Share prize, a Digital art award by Romaeuropa Festival (with Marco Donnarumma), and a visual Art Prize by <\/span>Com.It.Es<\/span><\/a>. Berlin.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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Performance, Kj\u00f8pmannsgata Ung Kunst, April 19 @ 21:00 \/<\/span>
\nWhat does it mean to create a truly autonomous machine, independent from human control? And what happens when organs live outside of a body? Perhaps the human body\u2019s only real power is to take on ever changing forms and identities.<\/p>\n