Mystic-Informatic
Mystic-Informatic: Audrée Juteau, N. Zoey Gauld, Catherine Lavoie-Marcus and Ellen Furey
Open to the public: Thursday, May 23, 7 p.m.
School performance (and all audiences): Friday, May 24, 2 p.m.
Members: free.
Non-member: $10 (under 18: free).
Mystic-Informatic unexpectedly brings together dance, mycology and digital technologies. At the root of these concerns are a questioning of the meaning of dance in the context of the digital shift, a fascination with the enigmatic world of mushrooms, and a preoccupation with the environment and the waste produced by the capitalist economy. In a recent book by anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World, we learn that the matsusake mushroom only grows in the ruins of capitalism – in those forests razed to the ground, those landscapes devastated by exploitation where no life was thought possible – bringing, in the process, a glimmer of optimism. Mystic-Informatic uses the mushroom as a metaphor, and proposes dance as a resilient force capable of breathing new life into technological waste, these outdated technological materials. Through dance and our bodies, technology is diverted from its primary functions, and we connect with it in a sensory, corporeal and imaginative way. In a punkish, apocalyptic and feminist spirit, we give power back to dance and exorcise our ecological despair. La mystique informatique raises contemporary questions about the place of dance and the living body in contemporary artistic practice.
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