Projects
198021 - Five Attempts to Reappropriate the Censor
Madison Pomarico
Daniel Conant
In collaboration with:
Tasha Hess-Neustadt
Residencies:
Cordillera Berlin
2021
In 198021, the censor became the leitmotif. Five depictions of a dystopian environment convey the manipulative power of the censor as it is reappropriated by three performers. Utopic imagery and the irony of alternative facts, alongside the intentional censoring of bodies and the destortion of text occurs in a monochromatic space, mirroring the stark ‘post-truth’ reality of digitalism in the 21st century. Here, George Orwell’s ‘1984’ is re-interpreted and retrofitted in a present day context, highlighting the parallels between fictional projections of the future, and their uncanny reality.
ProjectsThe Reproduction
Human Systems of a Structure
198021 - Five Attempts to Reappropriate the Censor
The Opposite of a Black Hole
Erythrophobia
I, The Consumer
Performance
Archive
Light Design
Fighting for Fear
Mehr Licht [mir so schlecht]
Yuki Onna
Madison Pomarico is an American born, Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice engages with the interface of performance, movement, and visual languages in combination with the use of technological elements that challenge the limits of the body, and various levels of performer autonomy. Her work is driven by a sense for experiment and artistic cross-pollination between visual arts and different genres of dance, expanding our perception of tangible experience, and pushing the boundaries of expectation. She works with mediums such as video, light design, animation, sculpture, and graphic programming environments in an attempt to dissolve established modes of working digitally and materially, and invent new immersive methods in the process.