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 MADISON POMARICO MADISON POMARICO
  1. [The Reproduction]
  2. Human Systems of a Structure
  3. 198021
  4. The Opposite of a Black Hole
  5. Erythrophobia
  6. I, The Consumer
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︎THE OPPOSITE OF A BLACK HOLE︎


I wonder what it’s like to float.
Airborne, airport, airbound,
I think therefore am I profound?


Oh, I’m thinking,
I’m thinking about….
I’m thinking abouuuuuuuttt…

Madison Pomarico, Rebecca Douglass & Tasha Hess-Neustadt have been commissioned by the curators of Festival International de Vidéo Danse de Bourgogne, for a film premiering October 2022.

The project, entitled ‘Somnambulists for an Ensemble’ will be a 50 minute collective screendance, created as a compilation of 10 internationally selected female artist teams’ independent segments. Each segment will position itself in relation to the renowned experimental filmmaker Maya Deren's unfinished dance film Ensemble for Somnambulists (1951). The invitation is for the artists to create a finished version of ‘Ensemble for Somnambulists’, freely reimagined and adapted to our times.

The Opposite of a Black Hole is a digital flaneur, an audiovisual journey through the wandering mind of a pinhole camera, exploring the clashing of old and new technologies in relation to the dancing body and the moving image. 

The film meanders through homages to old cinema romance, existential dread, and glitch-feminist fantasy, all the while paying tribute to the pioneering figure of Maya Deren.

The opposite of a black hole is a disembodied reflection on what we are made of. It imagines the relations of dust, DNA & pixels to the human body, as well as the malleability of human flesh and voice in the digital realm.  The wandering pinhole voices the pleasure of thinking as entertainment, the transformation of thinking to panicking, and the many contradictions of our times, through dreams, nightmares, and tangential distractions.

The artists seek to enter inside the universe of their tributee, digitally penetrating the boundaries of culture and technology that prevent us from time travelling to meet our predecessors - with curiosity, humour, and reverence.
2022Co-Direction: Rebecca Douglass,Tasha-Hess-Neustadt,Madison Pomarico
Choreography, performance: Rebecca Douglassa & Tasha Hess-Neustadt
Camera,Editing & Animation: Madison Pomarico
Text & Sound: Rebecca Douglass, Tasha Hess-Neustadt, Jake Burgess
Festivals

Festival International de Vidéo Danse de Bourgogne, FR 10.2022

Coctelito de Videodanza 2022-2023, MX

Supported by

Arts Council England
Fieldworks Dance London Artist in Residency Program