Jaime del Val

Jaime

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Jaime del Val / JaiVal (Madrid 1974) is a meta-media artist, philosopher, performer, producer, environmental and postqueer activist, director of Reverso Institute www.reverso.org and of Metabody Project www.metabody.eu.
He develops transdisciplinary projects in the convergence of arts technologies, critical theory and activism, that have been presented all over Europe, North and South America, which propose redefinitions of embodiment, perception and affects that challenge normative constructions of subjectivity, sexuality and control technologies of Information Society.

  

 

 

Lecture: METABODYjaime metabody

Posthuman aboriginals, postqueer technoshamans and microsex workers. Defying the infrastructural imperialism of the Quantifed Body in the Big Data Era.

Current Big Data culture radically expands a tradition of the Quantified Body that reduces the pluralities of bodies in motion, relation and transformation to fixed patterns, anatomies, forms and traceable behaviours.
How do media structure bodies not through content but through the very perceptual structures they mobilise? How does the reduction of bodies to quantifiable anatomies and behaviours rely on particular kinds of media structures and infrastructures?
The Metabody project proposes a reflection on the structuring power of media and technologies and a creative reinvention of perception, working not inside representation but undoing its perceptual framework and mobilising an unquantifiable body.
This is a particularly urging matter in the Big Data Era where bodies are increasingly reduced to complex data and behaviour patterns of prediction, in a process disguised behind rhetorics of technoliberation.
How to regain the complexity of embodied expression and defy the reductive power of information technologies? How to become illegible to Big Data algorithms and mobilise an alien embodiment that exceeds any formalisation in patterns of sex, gender, or behaviour?

www.metabody.eu

 

 

 

Workshop: MICROSEXES - Alien Couplingsjaime alien

All participants engage in a microsexual contact improvisation of superslow movements in which bodies explore the most alien ways of touching one another using the whole body surface, exploring microsensation, microtouch and microkinaesthetics, experiencing how the body loses its form, anatomy and identity and becomes an emergent landscape of infinite indefinite sexes.

At the same time some participants wear sensor which they pass from one to the other, that captures the movement and generate sound, this helps to monitor the level of activity and keep the movements in a microsopic level, while a small surveillance camera and microphone is passed amongst the participants with the mediation of the performer-teacher that projects the micromovements of contact between bodies on a screen and the proceseed voice, which envelopes the workshop space like a non human moan.

Wearable flexible translucent tent-like structures are distributed amongst all participants, that act like amorphous body extensions and proto architectural structures which generate post-intimate folds in the workshops space..

www.microsex.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Performance/Metaformance: METATOPIA-MICROSEXES - Alien Couplingsjaime microsexes

The performer engages in a microsexual contact improvisation of superslow movements with the audience members, in which bodies explore the most alien ways of touching one another using the whole body surface, exploring microsensation, microtouch and microkinaesthetics, experiencing how the body loses its form, anatomy and identity and becomes an emergent landscape of infinite indefinite sexes.

At the same time the performer wears sensors which captures the movement and generate sound, this helps to monitor the level of activity and keep the movements in a microsopic level, while a small surveillance camera and microphone project the micromovements of contact between bodies on a screen and the proceseed amplified voice, which envelopes the workshop space like a non human moan.

Wearable flexible translucent tent-like structures are distributed throughout the space, that generate post-intimate folds for the perfomer and the audience.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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