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This book reflects on the violent impact of digital border systems and surveillance practices that dehumanises migrating bodies, drawing parallels between these and similar harmful acts of identity marking in relation to performance and migration.
It examines a range of movement-centred contemporary performance practice, including the author's collaborative practice-based explorations, which disrupt and subvert surveillance technologies, carried out along the Kent coast and UK border.
This book draws from three areas: Aneta Stojnic's 'body-as-data' phenomenon, technology's effects on border control, and digital technology's relationship to performance. It investigates the ways in which performance practice can create an opportunity for bodies transcribed into data at digital border zones to be removed from the machinic identity placed upon them to create a counter-narrative which is more human and multifaceted. Offering the original concept of 'choreographing evidence', which employs choreographic practices as a framework through which to analyse Practice as Research, the book applies PaR methods to performance works created with artist and refugee Tom Tegento: Uninvited (2021) and Contagion (2021). This work disrupts surveillance technologies and their violence towards bodies at borders as well as using them in alternative ways within performance practice. It considers how choreography which utilises both overt optical tracking technologies and GPS methods embedded in smart devices can enable othered bodies to re-draw borders, re-claim narratives and re-situate the self.
Alongside this PaR work, the book analyses contemporary performance which uses the body and/or technology to explore narratives of migration, presenting a range of issues they may fall into, such as aestheticizing, absenting or speaking for migrating bodies, and offering examples of UK and European works which critique the way migrating bodies are represented within performance. Works discussed include: Flight Pattern (2019), A Place to Sit (2021), The Walk (Little Amal) (2021) and Now is the Time to Say Nothing (2019), among others. The insights gained through this PaR intervention offer a richer understanding of the power dynamics at digital borders, how they function, how they can be resisted and how they are felt and lived.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Series Editors' Preface
Opening Provocation, Tom Tegento
Introduction
Intentions: Choreographing Evidence
Chapter 1: Transcribing Bodies Into Data
Introducing Data to the Body
Histories of Data Bodies and Cyborgean Qualities
Bodies as Data
Recent Technology at Europe's Borders
Capturing Bodies
Dancing into Data
Chapter 2: A Movement Perspective: Performances on Migration and their Implications
Flight Pattern and Stolen Embodiment
A Place to Sit and Dance with Strangers
Walking with Little Amal
Temporarily Entering Virtual Worlds in The Machine to Be Another
Equal Exchange in Now is the Time to Say Nothing
Pillars of Commitment
Chapter 3: Re-mapping the Border Within Uninvited
Introducing the Practice & Process of Uninvited
Carrying the Border
Reclaiming the Image Through Drone Intervention
Choreographing Evidence by Re-Mapping Borderlines
The Uninvited Guest, Spaces of Disallowed Arrival
Evidencing The Between as a Site of Autonomy
Chapter 4: Re-writing the Body-as-data across Global Spaces through the Contagion Mobile App
The Contagion App and Productive Failures
Shifts, Becomings and Glitches
Evidence Left in Footsteps
App Based Interventions
Choreographing Evidence: (Re)organising Space and Time
Conclusion
References
Index
