Kyoko
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2022
Performance (dance + live sound, sci-fi clips & CG simulations of water), 20 min A conversation unfolds as I lay silently, on the outside: “I’m here to test if you have a consciousness, or if you’re just simulating one. How does that make you feel?” “It makes me feel sad… — excerpt, Ex machina, 2014 In late-1800s, I was already deemed cyborg. About a hundred years later, European feminists would declare: becoming cyborg = liberation This condition I’m not sure that I’ve yet had the pleasure yet of escaping: still suspended in an uncanny valley. “I can help you look after the house and cook. Take care of kids and manage processes. I am also a sports expert on bed… is your on-call — good partner. My power can last 175 years.” — found film excerpt, 2020 Simulation 986,589… I dreamt I drifted into waters so deep without consequences. That my body wouldn’t fail before reaching the bottom. That I wouldn’t short out… of energy. of breath. To experience the freedom of a bodiless mass. Of pretending I too could be bodiless & all that comes with it. I, too, dream… |
Performance at Décalé 6. Space289 (London). 18 June 2022.
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