Filtered Intimacy

2011

Performance Art held at:
LABoral Centro de Arte, Spain and
Piksel Festival 2011, Norway.

Artists: Wendy Ann Mansilla, Paula Pin, Maria Mitsopoulou

We are filtered online. Our bodies are seeking to understand and pursue the perfect state. Our bodies are finding ways to break out of reality only to be confronted with failure. The very moment that our bodies enter the intimate lives of others through computers and communication space, we are losing parts of our flesh. In the electronic space, we are leaving fragments of our bodies behind. We are unaware that the energies in our body can pass through the network cables and affect another entity. Beyond thinking, our body is speaking in the interconnected universe. The body and the universe are inseparable, and in the darkness they are in union, reproducing an infinite amount of light and sound. Continuously searching perfect flows to the point of disfunction. When disorder happens, concrete landscapes are married with abstract images where flesh and circuits are made one.

We collaborated together to experiment on stage movement, using sensors and circuits attached to our skin (exosculpture). Through interactions of our bodies, we push our digital slaves in generating a concert of noise and harmony. Meanwhile a visual composition is projected gathering new data from a variety of social network sites every few minutes. The system searches these sites for dialogues between the actual body performing on-stage, the technology and the ecosystem, collects and stores them in a database. Image that appears creates a sound concert. In Filtered Intimacy, two input of sounds are combined, from the live physical performance ritual and from the networks live performance.

Material: 200 Manipulated photos under the tags: spider woman, post humanity modes, bio and moral modifications, interact, love zones, illegal mutated ethnographies…
Technology: live performance Keyboard, 3 projections of Twitter real-time semantic search, electronic body circuits, 3D live rendering using Kinect sensor

Romantic primitivism. 
fetish simulations of floating personalities
glittering galaxy of a splatter culture
atypical roles

Next to a place where sexual deviance is being celebrated.
Still erecting barricades against sacrificial violence.

-cuts leading to clashes with riot police,
debt crisis…
8.2% of xxxx clinically depressed,
21% of financially troubled contemplate suicide
Main roads already closed.
The world, and markets, are watching Wednesdays rallies.
30,000 public sector workers could be suspended before the end of the year.
Clashes at the lower part of the square.
The violence of naming.
Square.

-Drive towards revision,

playfully!

disturb the limit of both animal and human existence;
What it means to exist in relation to others?