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I really couldn’t tell either why or how I took it.
Nor I genuinely couldn’t explain why this old photograph sprang to mind when I read the theme of this year’s Paleoanthropology Summer School: Australopithecus – bipedal, but not (yet) humans.
The fact that a girl dancing (or orbiting?), with a Soviet Army Gas Mask on, resembles more an extinct species rather than some futuristic figment of our imagination is against all odds.
And yet there she is.
Biped. Resembling an ape, our ancestral species, through the very same instrument whose shape is generally assumed to eventually turn Homo Sapiens into Homo Cosmicus: a posthuman mask (its military or astronautics function doesn’t really make any difference).
Nothing can be more human than her - she’s dancing.
Standing on her own two legs.
And for the very same reason nothing can be more ancestral - she’s dancing!
Standing on her own two legs!
And a million years from today, at the “PaleoEarthers Summer School”, it’s not unlikely the students will look at her (or at some random dugout remains of some ancestor crashed with her spaceship geo-cosmic ages earlier on some forsaken planet) feeling at once so distant, so diverse, and yet so close and connected to her.
It is a strange and baffling coincidence indeed - the more sophisticated and evolutionary advanced we become, the more close to our animal ancestors we resemble.
What’s at stake now I guess it does not differ from what was at stake back then - trying to pass on whatever come next a bit of us. In the Australopithecus’ case a bit of animal instinct (and rhythm!), in our case a bit of humanity (dance, laughs, tears and many many many tales about our unforgivable mistakes as well as our joyful achievements).
Self-Construction as a methodology
performance/installation by Bruno Listopad
Performers: Aleksandra Maciejewska, Amaranta Velarde González, Angelina Deck, Eric Schrijver (Guest Artist)
Picture © Jette Schneider / Danslab
Self-Construction as a methodology
performance/installation by Bruno Listopad
Performers: Aleksandra Maciejewska, Amaranta Velarde González, Angelina Deck, Eric Schrijver (Guest Artist)
Picture © Jette Schneider / Danslab
Self-Construction as a methodology
performance/installation by Bruno Listopad
Performers: Aleksandra Maciejewska, Amaranta Velarde González, Angelina Deck, Eric Schrijver (Guest Artist)
Picture © Jette Schneider / Danslab
Self-Construction as a methodology
performance/installation by Bruno Listopad
Performers: Aleksandra Maciejewska, Amaranta Velarde González, Angelina Deck, Eric Schrijver (Guest Artist)
Picture © Jette Schneider / Danslab
Self-Construction as a methodology
performance/installation by Bruno Listopad
Performers: Aleksandra Maciejewska, Amaranta Velarde González, Angelina Deck, Eric Schrijver (Guest Artist)
Picture © Jette Schneider / Danslab
Feral Automated System: ULTB-1 is a living research project, creating a new vision of automated systems: it re-enacts a networked body of Communism composed from different vegetal, digital and engineering layers. Plants here are a pure “hyle”, a scaffold of the project — in the material of the network, its exchanging information (vegetal cryptocurrency) and its very protocols of exchange (derived from the real mechanisms of vegetal communication).
Photo: Florian Voggeneder
Everything that ends has a new beginning. Human rose, dominated planet Earth in less than 3000 years, managed to achieve the very peak of "matters" civilization, and ended up almost destroying everything that matters...
To better understand what went wrong, in order to re-establish what humanity is consist of (after all, what is human without humanity), the cyborg race post-human conducted a thorough examination of human history, their religions, politics, emotions, hope and fear, thinking mechanism, behavior patterns, belief systems... all of which are more mythology than science to the cyborgs, for when one has already acquired a close to perfect body, and almost immortality, moral has no meanings... until they realized something is missing, a purpose of existence...
From the examinations, the cyborgs discovered the duality in human design, like the "0" and "1" in human's ancient data processing machines, very much like the planet's habitat in the age of old, there was a moon in the night that echoes the sun in the day, there were femininity on the right side of human's brain, to balance the masculinity on the left, when they were in balance, human managed to achieve harmony, but something upset that duality and suppressed the right side of their brains, and it was a slow death of humanity, and that is why in the end the "Elders", last of mankind, and the very first post-human cyborgs decided to eliminate that duality all together, and merge everything into ONEness, without sides, there would not be needed for balance... so they thought...
Is an irony, human with all their imperfection and imbalance, they managed to convinced themselves the purpose of living in their every waking moments... cyborgs achieved perfection and eliminated all possibilities of imbalance, lost their purposes...
So, they look at this statue created and left behind by the "Elders", they called it "Caduceus", and it is said that whoever understood the encryption shall be set free... ...
Self-Construction as a methodology
performance/installation by Bruno Listopad
Performers: Aleksandra Maciejewska, Amaranta Velarde González, Angelina Deck, Eric Schrijver (Guest Artist)
Picture © Jette Schneider / Danslab
Feral Automated System: ULTB-1 is a living research project, creating a new vision of automated systems: it re-enacts a networked body of Communism composed from different vegetal, digital and engineering layers. Plants here are a pure “hyle”, a scaffold of the project — in the material of the network, its exchanging information (vegetal cryptocurrency) and its very protocols of exchange (derived from the real mechanisms of vegetal communication).
Photo: Florian Voggeneder
Self-Construction as a methodology
performance/installation by Bruno Listopad
Performers: Aleksandra Maciejewska, Amaranta Velarde González, Angelina Deck, Eric Schrijver (Guest Artist)
Picture © Jette Schneider / Danslab
Self-Construction as a methodology
performance/installation by Bruno Listopad
Performers: Aleksandra Maciejewska, Amaranta Velarde González, Angelina Deck, Eric Schrijver (Guest Artist)
Picture © Jette Schneider / Danslab
Self-Construction as a methodology
performance/installation by Bruno Listopad
Performers: Aleksandra Maciejewska, Amaranta Velarde González, Angelina Deck, Eric Schrijver (Guest Artist)
Picture © Jette Schneider / Danslab
"The #narrative #illusion introduces a 'mind virus', which is a syntactical #contagion that spreads through communicative vectors and colonizes the cognitive biases of the targeted individual's #psychology, thus transforming the #mental processes of that target."- James Scott
Self-Construction as a methodology
performance/installation by Bruno Listopad
Performers: Aleksandra Maciejewska, Amaranta Velarde González, Angelina Deck, Eric Schrijver (Guest Artist)
Picture © Jette Schneider / Danslab
Self-Construction as a methodology
performance/installation by Bruno Listopad
Performers: Aleksandra Maciejewska, Amaranta Velarde González, Angelina Deck, Eric Schrijver (Guest Artist)
Picture © Jette Schneider / Danslab
Self-Construction as a methodology
performance/installation by Bruno Listopad
Performers: Aleksandra Maciejewska, Amaranta Velarde González, Angelina Deck, Eric Schrijver (Guest Artist)
Picture © Jette Schneider / Danslab