OBOT / Our Bodies Our Tech Umide Divinazioni

FAROUT

Practice crying

Umide Divinazioni” is an installation which explores the borders between science and magic. It engages people to train gazes and gesturality to explore the micro-world of our bodies in a context in which there aren’t neat limits between protocol and ritual.  

The objective is to re-think about science as a powerful tool capable of building imaginaries and languages which is able to recognize our interindipendence and to transform our comprehension of reality.
During the 30 minute session the partecipants are invited to take part in a practise of dacrimanzia (from ancient greek: δάκρυ – dákru, “tear drop”), divinatory art which reads, studies and interprets the shapes generated from the crystallization of tears. This form of art probably started diffusing in Europe during the seventeenth century, following the introduction of the  microscope.
Divinatory rituals present analogies with scientific protocols, especially with their processes, ministers, must-do formulas, purifying fires, active principles and when people involved become more and more specialized, incapable of sharing and being comprehended.
OBOT plays with this contradiction, it explores the limits, contaminates the “modest testimony” of science with immodest glances to open a new dialogue, causing debate bewteen disciplines and demolishing some of its highest walls.

Bio

OBOT (Our Bodies Our Tech) is a project by Maddalena Fragnito and Zoe Romano. Romano since 2019 takes care of science and technology from a queer transfemminist point of view – looking for methods to lower the barriers of research, of production and of scientific knowledge – developing new forms of accessibility to technological tools, protocols and data through practices of shared research. 

 

  • Duration 30'
  • Doors opening at 15' minutes before the start
    • SESSIONS LAST 30 MINUTES WITH A PAUSE OF 10 MINUTES BETWEEN EACH OTHER
    • MAXIMUM CAPACITY: 2 PEOPLE

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