Technological
Dances
Anderson begins her performances by observing technological objects.
She then spreads paint on those objects. Anderson does not paint with a brush but directly with an object coated in paint.
These computers, drones, batteries, VR masks (etc) lead her into an intuitive dance of repetitive movements. Guided by hyper-ventilated breathing, the performer engages in a trance. Paint-coated objects hit the canvas on the ground as a poetic gesture that memorises objects from our Anthropocene era.
Anderson ‘hits’ the ground as a call. A request to open towards an animist dimension of our environment.
technological
Dances
Anderson begins her performances by observing technological objects.
She then spreads paint on those objects. Anderson does not paint with a brush but directly with an object coated in paint.
These computers, drones, batteries, VR masks (etc) lead her into an intuitive dance of repetitive movements. Guided by hyper-ventilated breathing, the performer engages in a trance. Paint-coated objects hit the canvas on the ground as a poetic gesture that memorises objects from our Anthropocene era.
Anderson ‘hits’ the ground as a call. A request to open towards an animist dimension of our environment.
“Technological Dances – Google Smartphone Vr Headset” gouache, acrylic on canvas, rain drops 151 × 151 cm, 2023
Paul Crutzen, Nobel Laureate who fought climate change. He named our age the “Anthropocene” and warned the world of threats that certain chemicals posed to the ozone layer. Credits Planck Institute, The New York Times, article by John Schwartz, 2021
“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
