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Modern Body Laboratory #3: PORTALS is the 3rd edition of our laboratory series. It presents new intermedia performances and installations that open portals to different worlds, offering new perspectives to our surroundings.

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Curatorial Statement

For more than a year we have been balancing on a threshold, at the precipice of something we cannot quite grasp, bracing ourselves to cross to some other side.

We have a looming, collective sense of exiting the known and heading somewhere else; maybe this will be a radically different world, or maybe it will be exactly the same; maybe it will be a world with sweeping changes or one with small differences that barely matter; a step towards utopia or a plunge into dystopia.

As we find ourselves crossing through this portal, we take a moment to hover in the nebulous spaces it offers, to gaze into some of the darkest voids and brightest rays of what is possible, to look into the past, the present, and the future, into realities and hypotheses, into lived experiences, empathic sensations, and thought experiments.

For this third Modern Body Laboratory edition we present four works that act as portals, transporting us to spaces, situations and vantage points that offer new perspectives, new visions, and new experiences, enabling us to reflect on the inertial forces of this collective hyperbody we all inhabit together – what we call humankind:

• Marko Ciciliani‘s durational Rave SÉANCE is a pseudo-occult ritual that invokes the ‘dark magic’ of Artificial Intelligence to rediscover the spirit of the rave, a trance-inducing gathering we have lately been deprived of.
• Future Voices / Zukunftsmusik by the Society for Nontrivial Pursuits extends an invitation to think together about the world to come, opening a portal into our collective imagination about the future, and engaging with our thoughts, fears, and hopes. For this event we invite Ji Youn Kang to take the helm in a special ‘takeover’, actively sculpting this journey as a durational performative installation.
• María Molina Peiró‘s The Sasha is a film that explores our human desire to extend the borders of our known world, and how we use technology to share life-changing experiences – like walking on the surface of the Moon and seeing the Earth from outer space.
• An Absurdist Archive of Isolation: a full-body workout radio play by Bridge Fiske / Joseph Lau / Stelios Manousakis / Stephanie Pan is a participatory radio play that opens a gateway in your own home, guiding you through a transformative reimagining of your relationship to space and time.

Ways to experience

• Upload your own thoughts and reflections on the future at the Future Voices website before or during the event.
• Experience An Absurdist Archive of Isolation: a full-body workout radio play at home, before or after coming to the exhibition. The piece can be accessed on-demand through our website from 16:00 to 00:00 local time on Nov. 27.
• Join us at WD4X/iii workspace between 17:00 – 20:00 on Nov. 27 to participate in the Rave SÉANCE, to listen and contribute to the Future Voices, and to watch The Sasha.