Artifacts of Micro Performativity. Interpassive Dialogue
Hyperscan
with two players in zero action: Zarko Alexsic vs. Margarete Jahrmann
Live Performance:
08 Jun 2022, 11:30–12:30 Uhr
In this micro performance the two players enter Mimicry,
exploring it as a form of play, a dialogue without words, a play without rules, an action without action, a form of resistance.
About Neuromatic Game Art
Micro performances are a series of performances
created on the trail of strategies of historical minimal art, but since then, the project has separated in an attempt to appropriate
artifacts from scientific discourse and transform them into works of art.
Mimicry is one of the four forms of play according
to Caillois. It’s low-interaction is a new concept of the orientation in artistic play opposed to capitalist logic. In this
micro performance Zarko and Margarete enter exactly this form of play– a dialogue without words, a play without rules, an
action without action, a form of resistance.
A simultaneous EEG (electroencephalogram) hyperscan shows unavoidable
activities that correspond to our constitution:
Micro movements of the body cannot be perceived with the naked eye, maybe
they are captured by multiple cameras, surely they can be read as artifacts on the simultaneous brainwave measurement, traced
as the beginning of a new form of communication…
Developed in the context of the artistic research project NEUROMATIC
GAME ART. Critical Play with Neurointerfaces. AR 581.
Special Thanks to our research partner Stefan Glasauer,
Prof. Dr.-Ing., Chair of Computational Neuroscience, Institute for Medical Technology, Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus
– Senftenberg, Germany, for supporting the Hyperscan Experiment on stage.
Image: Zero Action at the Savings
Bank. 2022, Margarete Jahrmann
