digital 1.5
The digital 1.5 project is a series of five staging events that
explore touch. Each event is an independent attempt to haptically read the
world with a digital understanding of the physicality and the practice of mutual
closeness and the coexistence of objects to which viewers are invited. The
selected group of bodies establishes contact with other bodies in space – with
the bodies of performers, the body of space, the sonic body, and the bodies of
technological objects. The latter is an increasingly important interface for
our entry into the world. By using them, the digital 1.5 questions the
mediatization of closeness and intimacy, and by applying the solid digital
logic of devices and their software to the soft organic bodies of people, it speculates
about man, who is not only a source of information, but also a device for processing
and storing data.
The touch in the digital 1.5 is a way of communicating and a means
of encountering the other; it is a digitized data and a transmission medium at
the same time. The project builds on the idea of the medium as given by Y.
Citton in his book The Ecology of Attention. The author describes the
media as diffuse ecosystems that not only represent reality, but they actively form
it. Thus, an ‘infrastructure of resonances that condition our attention’ is
formed according to the ideas that ‘surround and fulfil us’. In this respect, thedigital 1.5 is not in search of a loud staging gesture, but it wants to
provide a space of visibility or, in Citton's language, an environment of
reasoning for increasingly marginalized and, at the time of the pandemic,
transgressive practices of mutual closeness and touching.
digital 1.5.3
Art direction:
Jan Rozman
Performers: Leon
Marič, Jan Rozman, Mojca Sovdat
Music: Luka
Seliškar
Costume design:
Tanja Pađan / Kiss the Future
Video
documentation: Juš Jeraj
Photography: Nada
Žgank
Executive producer: Brigita Gračner
Kino Šiška, 27.9.2021
digital 1.5.2
Art direction: Jan Rozman
Performers: Maja Kalafatić, Leon Marič
Music: Luka Seliškar
Costume design: Tanja Pađan / Kiss the Future
Video documentation: Juš Jeraj
Photo: Marijo Župan
Executive producer: Brigita Gračner
25. 6. 2021, Tivoli, Ljubljana
digital 1.5.1study / installation
Art direction: Jan Rozman
Performers: Beno Novak, Julija Pečnikar, Jan Rozman, Liza Šimenc
Music: Luka Seliškar
Costume design: Tanja Pađan / Kiss the Future
Video documentation: Juš Jeraj
Photo: Marijo Župan
Executive producer: Brigita Gračner
31. 5. 2021, Fotopub, Ljubljana
