event: Intimacy - Virtual Salon
To complement the 'real world' workshops, seminars and performances that will make up 'Intimacy: Across Visceral and Digital Performance' a virtual 'salon' is being hosted to discuss some of the key questions raised by the events.
Over the next two weeks the Intimacy forum will be calling for contributions and responses to questions such as:
Can we experience intimacy across digital networks?
Is the body obsolete in virtual communities??
What is (or should be) our relationship to bio-engineered objects.
Why (or) is the 'real-world' body a site of abjection. Does the rush to digital bodies betray a fear of the flesh?
http://www.arts-humanities.net/forum/603
This is an open discussion and the topics are open to adaptation. Please feel free to upload video and sound files as well as contributing to the written discussion.
About Intimacy
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INTIMACY is a three-day digital and live art programme made to elicit connectivity, induce interaction and provoke debate between cutting edge artists, performers, leading scholars, respected researchers, creative thinkers and local community. A culturally urgent series of events, Intimacy is designed to address a diverse set of responses to the notion of 'being intimate' in contemporary performance and as such, in life. Framed as a forum for artists, scholars, community workers, performers, cultural practitioners, researchers and creative thinkers, Intimacy will feature workshops, seminars, performances, and a 1-day symposium at Goldsmiths College, Laban, and the Albany during December 7th-9th, 2007.
Featuring performances, workshops, seminars and a symposium, Intimacy invites scholars, researchers, artists and audiences to enable the interrogation and creative exploration of formal, aesthetic and affective modes of performing intimacy now.
