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DO BODIES DREAM OF ELECTROMAGNETIC ORGANS?

2022

September | Ars Electrónica Linz. Austria

2021

September | Ars Electrónica Garden. Canòdrom. Barcelona
July-September | Hangar & La Caldera. Residency

DO BODIES DREAM OF ELECTROMAGNETIC ORGANS?

Do bodies dream of electromagnetic organs? is a performative installation built by movement sensors that reflects on the relationship between body and electromagnetic biomedical implanted devices. It addresses the alterations in terms of perception, self perception, movement and spatial relations that appear after some experiences where state of consciousness is suspended. It proposes a built environment where some of these narratives are addressed by making some alterations on the way we perceive time and space.

The installation works as an extension of these devices some bodies have to carry in daily life and the relations that appear in-between. Bringing some terms into question by researching on bioethics, politics of the body, cyborg and how we relate with otherness and the unknown. It is constructed around the question, what is ‘there’?

https://ars.electronica.art/planetb/de/electromagnetic-organs/

https://arselectronicagardenbarcelona.org/es/exposicioncanodrom/

https://elpais.com/espana/catalunya/2021-09-08/el-ars-electronica-une-oxitocina-aceite-de-oliva-y-vino.html

https://blogs.uoc.edu/artmatters/esther-rodriguez-barbero-carolina-jimenez-introduciendo-suenan-los-cuerpos-con-organos-electromagneticos/

https://www.uoc.edu/es/news/2022/214-ars-electronica-festival

https://docs.llull.cat/IMAGES_2/np-ars-electronica-cast.pdf

Artistic & Technical data

Creation: Esther Rodriguez-Barbero
Programming and interior architecture: Ivan Paz and Roger Pibernat (Colectivo Top Lab)
Technical assistance and advice: Miguel de las Heras (Hangar Interactive Lab)
Construction and structure design: Elia Bagó
Sound assistance: José Velasco
Video: Tristán Pérez-Martín
The installation has been built in Hangar's Interactive Lab and in collaboration with Ivan Paz and Roger Pibernat (Colectivo Top Lab).
Production-Research Grant from l'Institut Ramon Llull, NewArtFoundation, UOC, La Caldera i Hangar.

2024  Platform. *SEROCÉANO: ELECTROMAGNETIC ORGANS
Performace-Lab *SILVER BEASTS SHINE WHERE THE HORIZON BENDS
Site - Performance. *TEMPLE

Site - Perf. A DANCE FOR THE E-SPIRITS. A LETTER TO THE PLACE. A CHANT FO THE LIVING 
Site - Action.
 *OFRENDA 
Research. *TEKNETOOLBOX
2023 | Site-Perf. *CIBORGMÍSTICA: ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES
Performance. *WE CAN DANCE 3.0
Site - Action. 
RUMOUR LAYERS. PILGRIMAGE IN HONOUR OF THE DEAD
2022 | Performance-Installation. *THE RUINS. AN ESSAY ABOUT POSSIBILITY 
Site-Lab. *TALES FROM THE LAKE HOUSE
Encounter-Lab. INVOCATION OF THE BODIES AND ORGANS TO COME
Site-Lab. INTERFERENCES. SPACES UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Site-Lab. MOVING WITH THE INSTITUTION
Site-Lab. TRANSITING SPACE THROUGH THE BODY

​2021 Performance-Installation*ALLÁ
  Installation. *DO BODIES DREAM OF ELECTROMAGNETIC ORGANS?
Performance. *THE UNKNOWING MACHINE
Site. *FROM UP HERE THE ROOFTOPS OF MADRID REMIND ME OF MY HOMETOWN
Artistic Practice Exchage Program Co-Curator. CRUSH
2020Site. *P.A.S.E.  A CHOREOGRPHIC TOUR
SiteDANCING IN THE RUINS (OF TECHNO)
Laboratory. *WE (STILL) CAN DANCE
Practice-Laboratory. *INVOCATIONS
Texts-action. *I DON'T KNOW

Installation-Publication. *BODY MESSAGES
2019Performance. *WE CAN DANCE
 Site. *GUIDED TOUR. LCE
Site. *BEATS & SWEAT . A TRIBUTE TO SIR HENRY'S

Performance. *AFFECT
2018 | Book *MANUAL: ON WAYS TO INHABIT THIS TABLE & OTHER ISSUES
2017Research. *THE CONSTRUCTION OF PERFORMATIVE SPACE 
Site - Performance. *GUIDED TOUR
2012-2016*Previous Works

Esther
Rodriguez - Barbero

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