Sea Soma

Installation

Sea squirt swims freely in the sea until it finds a permanent place on the rock and swallows the nervous system. This creature provoked a theory that the brain evolved in parallel to the complexity of bodily movement.

Sea Soma is a fictional ecosystem exploring screen-dependent life in contrast to the immersive experience of seawater. While diving into embodied cognition, it opposes the mind-oriented perception of intelligence. The installation encompasses cycles of media transformations between analog and digital, capturing the dancer’s explorations of touch, skin, and the sea creature. It consists of a video projected through transparent screen sculptures, bioplastic “skin”, mobile phones on neck holders, and algorithmic sounds and images.

The project is presented at Centrum, Berlin. Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media 2021/2022.

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