Ex Silens

Adresse

4 Dirch Passers Allé,
2000 Frederiksberg

Ex Silens

Beskrivelse

Ex Silens combines movement, sound, space and technology to dive deep into the corporeal knowledge at the edges of experience. The piece invites audiences into a radically alternative sensorium, a perceptual place where the “normal” does not exist. Here they encounter an otherworldly, ingenuous creature and a bare bones, posthuman totem. With the audience as accomplices, the creature and the totem touch and fuse with one another, entering a material, sonic, and conceptual feedback. Tender and extreme at once, Ex Silens is a ritual of sensory reorganization. An audiovisual composition experienced through eight subwoofers, an ambisonic speaker system and a rig of interactive lights produce trance-inducing seismic waves, while a choreography of touch, caresses and improvised interactions unites audience and performer in a strange and engrossing intimacy. Cochlear implants and AI hearing algorithms are extracted from their capitalist black box, subverted and turned into sonic organs with their own agencies. They respond to the creature’s movement, mingle with the public and amplify sounds from muscles, heart and blood to physically diffuse them, literally, through the bodies of the audience. These new organs, conceived and handcrafted by the artist, are far from individual aiding tools; they are organs of sharing. They do not try to repair a loss, but rather magnify a kaleidoscopic sound world that has always been there, mobilizing thus collective, sensible forms of being. Ex Silens offers a complete audiovisual experience to d/Deaf and hearing audiences. Each individual can participate in the performance according to their sensory configurations. Ex Silens is part of I Am Your Body (2022-present), a series of works investigating deafness, sound, and (artificial) intelligence through research driven by d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing people and facilitated by Donnarumma – himself late-deafened. Marco Donnarumma is an artist working with the human body, sound, and technology. His practice, manifests in the form of performances, installations, films, and photography, maps areas of contamination across art & technology, contemporary performance, and music. His oeuvre confronts normative body politics with uncompromising counter-narratives, where bodies are in tension between control and agency, presence and absence, grace and monstrosity. An inventor with expertise in engineering, computing, and biomechanics, over the past fifteen years he has worked with machine learning, AI, biosensors, robotics, and prosthetics, creating machines that turn the body into a site of resistance and transformation. MINU 2025 has two kinds of tickets available: 150 kr - festival ticket that gives access to all events at the festival 250 kr - festival ticket + 1, that gives access to all events at the festival and allows you to bring a friend along [it can be different people for different events] Credits: Concept, artistic direction, performance, choreography, dramaturgy, interactive AI music and programming: Marco Donnarumma Prostheses’ concept, morphology, engineering, fabrication and AI programming: Marco Donnarumma Collaborative research on hardware and AI software: Intelligent Instruments Lab at the Iceland University of the Arts Stage design: Marco Donnarumma, Anna Cingi Light design: Andrea Familari Prostheses’ visual design, 3D modeling and 3D printing: Anna Cingi Additional prostheses’ 3D modeling and 3D printing: Christian Schmidts Collaborative research group: Wojciech Czernia, Adriane Große, Ann-Catrin Gruber, Martin Holst, Mara Matzke Live sound technician: Leon Dohr Live light operator: Desirée García López Artwork’s description texts: Marco Donnarumma Live photography: Eunice Maurice and Stefanie Kulisch for CTM Festival Photography: Manuel Vason Video trailer: Marco Donnarumma Camera for video trailer: Daniele Lucchini External eye: Margherita Pevere, Jan Rohlf Production: Kotryna Slapsinskaite Ex Silens (2024) is an artwork and production by Marco Donnarumma. Co-produced by PACT Ex Silens is an artwork and production by Marco Donnarumma. Co-produced by PACT Zollverein and with scientific support by the Intelligent Instruments Lab at the Iceland University of Arts in Reykjavík. Funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia as a Medienkunstfellow.