Assembling Our Digital Selves
(2024) Performance Studies International PSi#29 London- Abstract
- This performance lecture dealt with plan b's ongoing practice of twenty years of collecting personal data, which has been the basis for a number of art works and performances over the years. As artists, educators and researchers, we have deliberately intermingled our art and life, be it through collecting GPS traces of everywhere we go or shouting all our text messages to one another. For us, the (inter)personal is also political. Gathering all our everyday traces was initially prompted by uprooting from London (where we were both born) to Berlin (a city that manifests a history that we had hardly experienced) and wanting to see how we learn a new city and keep a record of how our bodies and lives are changing through the spaces we inhabit... (More)
- This performance lecture dealt with plan b's ongoing practice of twenty years of collecting personal data, which has been the basis for a number of art works and performances over the years. As artists, educators and researchers, we have deliberately intermingled our art and life, be it through collecting GPS traces of everywhere we go or shouting all our text messages to one another. For us, the (inter)personal is also political. Gathering all our everyday traces was initially prompted by uprooting from London (where we were both born) to Berlin (a city that manifests a history that we had hardly experienced) and wanting to see how we learn a new city and keep a record of how our bodies and lives are changing through the spaces we inhabit and spend time in. How might the summation of the places we have been also be a portrait of our times and our lives? How does such a data collection let us re-assemble a sense of ourselves? There is information that our devices hold which our memories cannot. What does access to that machine memory allow us to do? The practice is also one of making the invisible visible. We take traces of physical events like walking down the street and render them in ink, pencil, wool, acrylic, granite and performative acts that expose two lives recorded for over two decades. (Less)
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- New, Sophia LU
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- 2024-06-21
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- Contribution to conference
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- conference name
- Performance Studies International PSi#29 London
- conference location
- London, United Kingdom
- conference dates
- 2024-06-19 - 2024-06-23
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- English
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title = {{Assembling Our Digital Selves}},
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