Living Software

#audio #video #performance #text

September 01, 2015

Living Software is very much like an object that can adapt in very different ways to situations. The work emerged out of a collaboration with Sandra Lolax in Kutomo, Finland in August 2015 and is also the continuation of 'Performative spaces', which I started earlier in Spring 2015.

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Forms of contemporary beauty or style are not a mission, they are something that happens, something that can be tasted with you or with others. Beauty & pleasure spring as byproducts of this - not as things in themselves. The same way that humor emerges and attraction arises. Nothing's ever lost. Back to Brussels, it's good to be back here to strawberries and honey and coconut, now it tastes so good and I can touch the jars and feel the cold and the differences, I'm almost passing out, incapable to contain the sensorial leap. It goes to my body and then to my face. But before anything like that to take place I need to become peripheral. Spontaneous orgasms are more likely to take place when no one is looking, not even me. I use what I find, be it robes, textures sounds, wilder thoughts, more colors, candies for the eyes, eroticism sang & danced by no one in particular. It just happens to be me now.
Artificially induced,
Utopia
The no longer sequential desert was awaiting and awaits for you still.
Double binds, fantasy made of words, tones, textures and the body, the loss of critical competence and efficiency.
It is a reflection rather then judgment, inability to judge because one is immersed in it, operating through it. Through a failed attempt to cure some kind of neurotic state produced by the Internet and the new love of working. The radical openness and inability to distinguish what is what becomes one's intimacies and friendships.

In collaboration with: workspacebrussels (Brussels), Szenne Artlab (Brussels)
Thanks to: Sandra Lolax, Billy Bultheel, Mikko Hyvönen, Jan Lietaret Vindevogel & Beursschouwburg (Brussels)
http://www.workspacebrussels.be/nl/productions/living_soft_ware-2361.html

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