Body of Noise

PERFORMANCE by Jessica Tucker
Sklep / Krenovka Cultural and Community Center, Husitská 22, Prague 3

live AV performance

30 Nov Sat 20:00 CEST

30 Nov Sat 21:00 CEST
bodies, performance, live, electronic music, augmented reality, machine learning

“Body of Noise” is a solo multimedia performance incorporating motion-interactive video, dance, and live electronic music. Complex bodies emerge through technological translation, as the performer coerces body-tracking devices into mesmerizing dysfunction. Exploring the complex relationship between technological representations of the body and the human desire to be understood, the performer takes the audience along through a series of poetic experiments with machines. Her body and face are mediated scene by scene using various technologies, including augmented reality, a real-time game engine, and custom machine learning models. Throughout, noise is clarified as a provisional medium for orienting ourselves and understanding our place-ness in an ever-shifting reality.

Join us also for the party with grlmonster69, who will invite all antendees to the dance floor afterwards.

Jessica Tucker

Jessica Tucker is an American and Dutch artist, musician, and educator. In her performances, videos, sculptures, and installations, she playfully examines how we use virtual vision to construct and distort our concept of the embodied self. She has performed and exhibited her work throughout Europe and the USA, including Rewire Festival, FOAM Museum of Photography, Goethe Institut, the Van Gogh Museum, and Mana Contemporary. She is currently conducting new artistic research in Berlin and at the Karlsruhe Institut für Technologie, supported by the Fulbright Germany program. In 2023-24, she was a Grant Wood Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa, specializing in interdisciplinary performance using digital media. She has also been supported by the Mondriaan Fonds, Chicago Artists Coalition, Thoma Foundation, and DCASE, among others.