DYSCORPIA 2.1
LIVE
DIGITAL
As part of Dyscorpia 2.1, we are proud to showcase three live mediated performances. The first two performances were on 1st August 2020. Veronika McGinnis will performed Reality is Heavy at 8pm MST and Lina Bautista, Marc Sans, Citlali Hernández performed Coded Distance at 11pm MST. The third performance by Eszter Rosta will be on 15th August from 5-7pm MST.
To accompany these performances, we are delighted to share
Reality is Heavy
by Veronika McGinnis
1st August at 8 pm MST
to see a recording of the performance please visit twitch.tv/dyscorpia
Lifting the veil to witness the pain of reality. Fantasy may serve as a rejection to the heavy entity which lives inside. It is the physical manifestation of visions and daydreams. Let go of the old world and usher in the new. Breathe in my breath. Make your vows sweetly and place him down gently. If I can’t have you now, I will laugh down by the water. His face is my face, bold upon his grave hill. You are the mirror which reflects my affection. I will hold you like a mother holds his child; as it was in another life. Born through patience and understanding, shamed by egoic reaction. If you resist being present, you cannot access wisdom. You may not enter our halls. I hope I do not retreat back inside of myself.
Veronika McGinnis is a multi-disciplinary artist from Amiskwacîwâskahikan - Edmonton, Alberta. She received her Fine Arts Diploma from Grant MacEwan in 2017, and continued her studies at the University of Alberta where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2019.
Conceptually, her work explores conscious and unconscious worlds, addressing themes of mysticism, sexuality and repression of the psyche. She uses her body as a conduit to physically manifest experience’s during trance and meditation. Altered states of consciousness provide an honest state of being for McGinnis, which allow room for sensitivity and vulnerability. It is these honest moments which help guide her narrative and connect her with the collective unconscious.
Coded Distance
by Lina Bautista, Marc Sans, Citlali Hernández
1st August at 11pm MST
to see a recording of the performance please visit twitch.tv/dyscorpia
Coded Distance is an exploration focused on improvisation using expressive tools from Live Coding practices. The performance takes place during a multi-stream session where all three artists share their spaces and computer screens. The artists, according to certain shared codes and instructions, explore ways to communicate and generate an environment for being together by sound, image and body codes.
Lina Bautista
Musician, Digital Artist
Lina Bautista studied musical composition in Bogotá, Colombia. He has been living and working in Barcelona for eight years, where he completed his studies in musical composition and new technologies, Interactive Music Systems Design and Sound Art. He has performed concerts in many cities in Spain and Europe and has participated in festivals such as Sirga Festival, Cau d'Orella, TEI international congress, Live.Coding.Festival, LEM, Eufònic and Mutek.
Lina currently works with the Orchestra of Chaos, an association and research project about experimental music and sound art, and with Familiar, doing DIY workshops. He is also a member of Sons de Barcelona, a collaborative group of artists working to encourage interest in sound and sound technologies. She is a technical coordinator at Mediaestruch, and teaches at institutions such as SAE Institute, and the Master in Sound Art at the University of Barcelona.
Marc Sans Coëffard
Stage Artist, Choreographer
Marc Sans Coëffard focuses the work on the use of the body and its relationship with different scenic contexts. He uses dramaturgy techniques to link seemingly unrelated disciplines and thus bring diverse audiences together. He is especially interested in the deformation of everyday movement and intuitive movement to get away from academic dance canons. Lover of pop, performance and neuroscience.
Citlali Hernández
Multidisciplinary artist and Designer
Born in Mexico City in 1986, Citlali Hernández develops her work around arts and design, crossing it by the ephemeral characteristics of performance, free technologies, and the meaning of the body. She has co-founded the Mexican multimedia performance collective #FFFF, as well as the electronic art and living arts company n_n in Barcelona. She is currently a professor of design and digital manufacturing at LCI Barcelona, and is studying for a PhD at BAU, Centre Universitari de Disseny de Barcelona.
Mediated Performance
by Eszter Rosta
August 14th 6-8pm
https://m.twitch.tv/dyscorpia
On 14th August from 6-8pm, Eszter Rosta will do a durational, physically mediated public performance for Dyscorpia 2.1. Referencing Marina Abramović’s ‘The Artist is Present’ (2010) and Amelia Jones (2011), Eszter Rosta aims to reframe ontologies of performance by questioning what it means to perform with and through mediated presence while simultaneously being physically present with other bodies.
To read more about Eszter Rosta’s work on live mediated performance please read her essay here
Eszter Rosta