Still from performance, 2019
Within the Vibrant Assemblage is a performance of physical and digital participants who share a particular degree of dance aptitude and endurance. This work attempts to draw attention to a poetic and fuller range of the powers that circulate around and within actual and possible bodies.
Close-up extract from the projected visuals, @ Irini Kalaitzidi, 2019
The performance was created in response to an urge to exist bodily and sensorially awake within a space which is shared by physical and digital entities with a particular dance aptitube. This dance aptitude is perceived as the liveliness and the affective capacity that the theorist Jane Bennett attributes to vibrant matter. In this work, the possible materiality and dimensionality of the vibrant matter found its expression in 2-dimensional projected visuals, 3-dimensional objects made out of wood, cotton and motors and the multi-dimensional human configuration of body joints.