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¿Por qué tenemos órganos pares y sólo un corazón?

Circuito artes escénicas de La Noche en Blanco 2010
¿POR QUÉ TENEMOS ÓRGANOS PARES Y SÓLO UN CORAZÓN?

PAOLA TOGNAZZI

A hybrid between workshop and interactive installation, which constructs a live concert with direct audience participation using the interactive tool Wearable_SuperNow, bracelets with sensors that capture the user’s movement and translate them into sound.

The sound is modulated (in time and volume) according to the physical quality of the movements. This experience allows for practices that make profound, elaborate and “occult” possibilities emerge from the body, starting with direct and immediate results that encourage the user to play with the instrument/body.

There is lots of talk about how we can reinvent the body, about what it is capable of doing. Instead of this, we wonder how we can re-perceive and listen to the body as a body, using technologies that simulate the expressive qualities generated by movements and conditions like will, effort and desire.

The sensorial experience of having a superpower, making our bodies talk, activates a process in which users learn to listen to their own bodies and engage in dialogue with them. The way this technology is used and the stories it reveals construct a secret world in which the audience can move about.

The audience will be asked: if your body could speak, what would it say? The answers are directly recorded in the system, each moving a sensor which will create a dialogue and a private landscape that speaks from inside us.

Author: Paola Tognazzi
Programming: Enrique Esteban Garcia
Music: Pablo Castillagracias a Carla Capeto.
Contributors: Medialab-Prado, Steim, Liem Reina Sofia, Milano in Digitale, Fondazione D’Ars, Camon Alicante, Instituto Cervantes Beijing, Teatro Pradillo Madrid, Plataforma HelloWorld!