Technological
Dances
Anderson begins her performances by observing technological objects. She then spreads liquid paint on those objects. These computers, drones, batteries, VR masks (etc) lead her into an intuitive ‘Technological Dance’ painting. Guided by hyper-ventilated breathing, she engages in a trance.
Paint-coated objects hit the canvas on the ground, a gesture that memorises objects from our Anthropocene era while poetically opening up new bonds between our body-mind and the Earth for a potential Symbiocene era.
technological
Dances
Anderson begins her performances by observing technological objects. She then spreads liquid paint on those objects. These computers, drones, batteries, VR masks (etc) lead her into an intuitive ‘Technological Dance’ painting. Guided by hyper-ventilated breathing, she engages in a trance.
Paint-coated objects hit the canvas on the ground, a gesture that memorises objects from our Anthropocene era while poetically opening up new bonds between our body-mind and the Earth for a potential Symbiocene era.
“Technological Dances – Google Smartphone Vr Headset” gouache, acrylic on canvas, rain drops 151 × 151 cm, 2023
“Technological Dances, S-band Ground Station Dish II” gouache on canvas, drops of rain, 4000 × 320 cm, 2021
“Technological Dances, Deployable Multifunction Solar Array for Cube-sat” gouache on canvas, drops of rain, 4000 × 320 cm, 2021
Karen Barad, Posthumanist Performativity, Towars an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter, published by the University of Chicago Press, Signs Vol 28, No.3 Gender and Science, 2003
“Performative Formulas” public collective ritual of activating the spirit of the object embedded in the painting, with Alice Anderson, Jon Caruana, Valerie Ebuwa, Eline Peres, James Olivo, 2022