The Elsewhere Logistics

2018
Performative training-opera
Performers: Alisa Smorodina, Anna Tsedik, Daria Getmanova, Daria Pasichnik, Daria Tokar
D21 Kunstraum Leipzig and MMOMA, Moscow

This work appeals to the relations between humans and objects, intelligence and body, knowledge and data in the digital media age, where the technological acceleration together with global transparency and surveillance developed the new mode of interactions. In this ecosystem of informational metabolism – volatility, worldwide entropy, and hybrid political regimes (informational autocracy) become the main features. The possibility of cognitive paths of knowledge, education, and mediation become key-topics. Finding a way to develop the new and augmented instincts for post singular condition. Looking for the tactics of self-protection from the exhaustion (acedia), triggered by multiple overlapped frameworks, where each framework pulls in a different direction. This age of hybrids, and planetary civil proxy-war open a re-formulated field of new desires, dreams, and demands for a human being. The performance is based on the reenactment of the works of Collective Actions Group, the key formation of the Moscow Conceptualist movement. The Elsewhere Logistics reinterprets the performances that took place in the early 80s, such as Description of an Action (1984) and for N. Alexeev (1981).

The training opera is built on the relations between verbal essay and performative training. The verbal essay will be mediated by six performers. This essay appeals to several topics of current post-privacy informational and technological ecosystems.

1. The interlink of transparency and surveillance

2. The story about the Elsewhere, the concept formulated by Alexey Yurchak, a practice of developing the personal values framework for artificial collectivity and political performances in the late Soviet state.

3. The third one is a case of Collective Actions Group and their performative actions as praxis of the Elsewhere.

(exercises based on performance be CAG).

4. The fourth is the case of FRG and DDR, the clear example of a clash between two meanings and political framework models in spatial and identity dimensions.

5. The fifth is about a new cold war or cold war 2.0, its descriptive model for the process of meeting between hybrid autocracy and transforming neoliberal democracy in the current period. The main case is the undercovered events or post-truth policy in transforming and accelerating the crisis of social relationships on a worldwide scale.

6. The sixth topic represents the problem of conflict between several groups of the Elsewhere and how we can understand the process or re-combine these groups in the post-soviet period.

7. the last one is the topic of mental disease as the main factor of the volatile and accelerated ecosystem of social interactions and information flows and acedia. This term, acedia, appeals to the feelings close to depression but can be also understood as a kind of tiredness.