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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Dear all </span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I am very pleased to announce Networked Bodies, </font><font color="#000000">a <wbr>long weekend of performances, talks, installations and workshops, exploring networks and networked performance practices at Watermans. </font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">I hope you can join us!</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">All the best</font></div><div><font color="#000000">Irini </font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font size="1">-- <br></font><div dir="ltr"><font size="1"><font color="#000000">Irini Papadimitriou<br>Head of New Media Arts Development<br>Watermans<br>40 High Street<br>Brentford <br>TW8 0DS</font><br>Direct line: <a value="+442082321012" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">+44 (0)20 8232 1012</a><br>Admin: <a value="+442082321020" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">+44 (0)20 8232 1020</a></font><div><a href="http://www.watermans.org.uk/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><font size="1">www.watermans.org.uk</font></a></div></div></div><div><br></div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><div><br></div><b>NETWORKED BODIES<br>Digital Performance Weekender<br>Friday 7 - Sunday 9 November 2014<br>Watermans </b></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Programme of events: </b></font><a href="http://issuu.com/mirena/docs/networked_bodies_programme_a2c24d4f34fbef " target="_blank">http://issuu.com/mirena/docs/networked_bodies_programme_a2c24d4f34fbef </a></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>Bookings:</b> </font></span><a href="http://watermans.ticketsolve.com/shows/873523000/events?show_id=873523000" target="_blank" class="c_nobdr t_prs" style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">http://watermans.ticketsolve.<wbr>com/shows/873523000/events?<wbr>show_id=873523000</a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div>Networks are at the heart of how we live today. Networks generate transnational zones of action, bring together communities, circulate knowledge and information, expand spheres of influence, contaminate ideas, germinate exchanges, foster innovation, and facilitate distribution of power. However, networks are unfairly distributed and closely monitored. Geopolitical injustices and dominant political and economic forces mean that networks can foster segregation, facilitate hyper-centralized forms of citizen surveillance and control, fragment living space and experience. These developments of the network society generate social tensions, which invest the task of understanding networks in their many manifestations -including cultural ones- with social and political urgency. </div><div><br></div><div>Networks, despite many past promises of disembodiment and internationalism through the obsolescence of both bodies and geographical boundaries - promises now widely perceived themselves as obsolete - are still experienced by subjects that remain both embodied and geographically situated (Cohen, 2012: 11) As Cohen argues, not only are networks firmly connected to material bodies and physical geographies, but they also play "an increasingly significant role in constructing embodied experience" (ibid), by both empowering and configuring the "networked self" (ibid: 12). </div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">In Networked Bodies at Watermans we want to explore networked performance practices with a view to considering how they transform live (embodied, disembodied and trans-bodied) performance practices. We are keen to consider the many, increasingly well documented, exciting possibilities these present to live performance, as well as their potential downsides. Speaking for the devil (so to speak), we ask: do these practices raise any ethical concerns through the use of surveillance and control, fragmentation of space and experience, alienation or even exploitation of their participants? Networked Bodies will aim to look beyond shiny appearances and into the -occasionally dirty- folds of the networks (and the bodies).</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial;"><font color="#000000"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial;"><font color="#000000">Curated by Maria Chatzichristodoulou (aka Maria X) and Irini Papadimitriou</font></p><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial;"><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Participating Artists: </b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Invisible Flock, </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Norah Lorway, </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Jo Scott, </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">Chisato Minamimura in collaboration with Nick Rothwell & body>data>space, </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Kate Sicchio & Nick Rothwell, </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fabio Lattanzi Antinori & Louise Ashcroft, </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Suzon Fuks, Steve Dixon, Julian Maynard Smith (Station House Opera), </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Maria Oshodi (Extant), </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Prof. Susan Broadhurst, Daniel Ploeger, Ellen Harlizius-Kluck, Rachel Jacobs (Active Ingredient</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">), </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Tim Murray-Brown & Jan Lee, </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Christina Papagiannouli, Evi Stamatiou, Helen Varley Jamieson, Miljana Periæ & Vicki Smith, </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Annie Abrahams, </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Camille Baker, </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Joel Cahen, </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Garrett Lynch, </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Joseph Hyde with Phill Tew & body>data>space, Kasia </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Molga & Adrian Godwin, </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ka Fai Choy, </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Jennifer Lyn MoroneT Inc, </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Alex May, </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Nina Kov in collaboration with COLLMOT Robotic Research Group directed by Pr Tamas Vicsek, Dept of Biological Physics of the Eotvos University of Budapest, </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Exploring Senses CIC, </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Stanza</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div> </div></body>
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