Corin Sworn and nussatari will be in conversation to discuss Sworn’s project 'Moving in Relation': a series of five events initiated by the artist built on live investigation, collaboration and an open curiosity towards machine-learning, algorithmic thought and AI interventions on physical bodies.

nussatari collaborated with Sworn and others on eco-co-location, the first event in the series, in 2021. They will talk about their process of working together and subsequent events, as well as cross-disciplinary collaborative approaches and making research live in real-time. They will be joined in conversation by Chloe Reith.

Event Details

Location

Capella Building
60 York Street Glasgow, G2 8JX

The Common Guild is on the 7th Floor.

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Transport Links: Glasgow Central Station is a five minute walk away.

Access

There is ramped access from the street to the ground floor reception.

The 7th floor is accessible by lift from the reception area. Visitors can check in at reception.

There are double doors in the lift lobby on the 7th floor. Please ring the doorbell for assistance.

Corin Sworn’s investigative series ‘Moving in Relation’ brings together collaborators working in movement, sound and academic thought to research human interrelationships with technology in real time.

Instalments will be presented in public, beginning in 2021 and cumulating in 2023, encompassing a body of research which explores material encounters with algorithmic thought, datafication and its influence on physical bodies. Events takes on an active experimental form, such as the structure of a rehearsal or a public lecture, to examine technical processes such as cloud computing, seeking to make obscure knowledge immanent and palpable. 

‘Moving in Relation’ negotiates and performs real-time research and group learning with each event gathering together a temporary discursive community.

Further Info

Corin Sworn is supported by Creative Scotland.

‘eco-co-location’ was supported by Leverhulme Trust.

Project Details

‘Moving in Relation’ was a series of five events which took place between November 2021 – December 2023.

‘eco-co-location’ took place place in a business park in the Clyde Valley on 27 November 2021.

‘This Harmonic Chamber’ was presented in a former loom shed built in the 19th century on 7 April 2022.

Louise Amoore interviewed by Corin Sworn took place online and is available to listen via the link below.

‘The Virtual Boulevard’ an experimental translation workshop took place online between poets in Glasgow and Buenos Aires.

Exhibition ‘In Reflection, Shimmer’ was presented at 60 York Street from 25 November – 16 December 2023.

A publication, ‘Moving in Relation’ will be released in 2024.

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.