Photo: courtesy of the artist.
Corin Sworn and nussatari present eco-co-location – a live one-off performance in a vacant office space within a near-empty suburban business park. Emerging through physical and verbal discussions, the performance explores dispersed sensation and variously suspended and compressed timeframes in response to this lapsed infrastructure of late capitalist administration.
Moving within the vast, stripped-out space, Sworn and Parinussa draw attention to the broad cloudscape visible through the building’s encircling windows. Clouds, employed as signifiers of data storage, insinuate connection between the material world and the complex concealed processes of corporate industries which, while remaining hidden and obscured, present as insubstantial, almost transcendent, ephemeral non-places.
Yet clouds, as shape shifting systems of condensation, have also long served as playful sites for shape spotting and make believe. As such, they can also speak to algorithmic machines which in a similar way, condense data whilst seeking to extrude patterns. These machines do so largely through correlation and abduction, seeking plausible generative associations without recourse to verification.
To engage these (in)operative metaphors and their associated processes nussa and Sworn have spent a period working into the affective qualities of feedback, delay and orientation amid systems that distribute sensation and trouble connection with echo.
This is the first in a series of five events entitled ‘Moving in Relation’ through which Sworn continues to research human interrelationships with technology. Working with dancers, academics and 'robot vision' equipped cameras, Sworn is developing a discursive and experimental event series that explores algorithmic thought, datafication and their influence on physical bodies while seeking to make obscure knowledge immanent and palpable.
Further Info
Corin Sworn wishes to thank the Leverhulme Trust, Creative Scotland and CCA, Glasgow.
Project Details
eco-co-location took place in a business park in the Clyde Valley. Coach travel was provided to and from the location. The performance lasted c.40 minutes.
Credits
Performance with sonic and sculptural installation: nussatari and Corin Sworn.
Sound Composition: nussatari,
Soft Sculpture and Costume: George Hampton Wale.
Sound technician: Guy Veale.
Film: Ambroise of Paradax Period.
