WHAT
For the past two years the Digital Dramaturgy Lab has conducted experimental explorations - following
principles of radical slowness, deep learning, nomadism and togetherness - into a wide array of research
subjects by playing with particular elements of Gao Xingjian’s play “Between Life and Death” (生死界).
Many students, artists, scholars and scientists of incredibly divers backgrounds have contributed to the
in-progress creative demonstrations that we will share with a broader public on May 25 and May 26. For
our public presentation we will employ the aesthetics and dramaturgy of a science fair from a theatre
and performance studies perspective. Expect a show! Don’t expect a show!

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Event Presentations

 

Demonstrations
 “Liminal Data, Dissolving Perceptions. – Interactive” (Richard C. Windeyer)
 “between dead metaphors and digital life: a technological triptych” (Montgomery Martin with
Sanja Vodovnik)
 “Body Logic - The Digital Technology in/of/from the Human Body” (Art Babayants and Oleg
Kisselev with collaborators)

"My F***ing Zen Garden. – A Cymatics Performance (Amina Holloway)

Installations
 “Death reflections. Sufi and Zen” (Berna Celikkaya)
 “1000/1/5 – A consideration of 1000 first steps and the number 5” (Antje Budde)
 The night it rained اون شب که بارون اومد the neighbor’s cat died we were in the basement
زیرزمینmy mother’s illegitimate child Keeumars کیومرث was sleepwalking on the roof top of a
two-story house خانه in the suburbs the scientists in Nishaburنیشابور found a cure for an epidemic
called loveعشق my friend told me in the forests جنگل in northern شمال British Columbia there are
signs علامت warning you there are serial killers wandering around... (Nazli Akhtari)

Performances
“I(n)ter(pret)ations of between. ” (Myrto Koumarianos with Frosina Pejcinovska, Congwen Xue
and Tijana Spasich”

 "Representation, Triplication theory and Clown – A performance in pieces (Emma Ge with Berna
Celikkaya and Sonia Norris)
“Processing - A table discussion. (DDL collective)
 “Broken Telephone. – Linguistic fragments meeting a Cello” (DDL collective)
 “Faked Reading – Interactive feelings of speech” (DDL collective)

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Previous projects include:“At the Core: Firing synapses as a nerve string quartet: Brain conditioning and real-time collaborativemusic composition” (2018)“Archiving Silence. – A Political Experience of Collection” (2017)“Performing Statistics – Life Contingencies” (2017)“In-Between Algorithms. (Life/Death)2 -Energizing Matter/ Materializing Energy” Multi-locationsymposium. (2016)“Between Life and Death. – A Staged/Faked Reading” (2016)