DYSCORPIA 2.1

PERFORMATIVITIES OF MEDIATED PERFORMANCE

By Eszter Rosta

In this material historical moment, we are perhaps at a point in which presence can no longer be defined in terms of physical and temporal relationships of humans being before each other. With the global impacts of pandemic related restrictions on movement and the implementations of physical distancing, critical considerations of new forms of mediated presence are imperative. Performance documentation, the development of digital performative platforms, and social media livestream functions have been central in the shifting and reconceptualization of my practice as an emerging performance artist – they enabled me to both experience and perform mediated presence. Performing works on digital platforms, for instance livestreaming a performance on Instagram, allow for critical interventions and inquiries of what it means to perform presence and liveness in the current context…….

DYSCORPIA 2.1

By Daniel Laforest

Since the original Dyscorpia exhibition took place in Spring 2019, no one has slept well. The past months have seen the very idea of the body caught between two adverse directions. The majority of our bodies have ground to a halt amidst pale bright computer screen and bundles of wires pushed against the dusty corners of our rooms. Meanwhile, other swathes of the population fell silent as their bodies became too occupied and their minds too preoccupied to even look up……

DISTANCING MEDIUMS

by Brad Fehr

What does it mean to suspend physicality? When forced to be distant from each other are we alone, or together in isolation? Is the lack of the physical a lack of humanity? What is the physical, why do we crave it, what does it matter? Creation is not an inherently physical act, but all art could be said to run aground in the physical. A concept or a feeling resolves inside the brain, a pixel is received by the processes of the eye: in a literal sense there is no getting away from our reality as tangible beings….

OPEN ESSAY

by DYSCORPIA Team

This is an experiment in asynchronous collaborative writing and discussing started by the DYSCORPIA team. As a group of largely (but not entirely) white academics and artists, we write these words with the understanding that amplifying the voices of others, learning not just their ideas, but also very modes of thought, and creating conversations around their ideas and work is the most ethical and meaningful thing we can do at this moment…….