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Curating MDEFestival

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Cluster 3: Dhrishya, Anna, Carmen

Name: !/Un-know me/! Subtitle: A performance and embodiment of social issues within identity and technology. An performance and exploration of social issues Creating tools of resistance and self-preservention

Modality: Embodiment and interaction

Cluster Work

Why this Cluster? - all our topics deal with the importance of self and knowing how to protect yourself on a physical and digital medium

What are we working on? Carmen: how can technology see identity, data and surveillance capitalism. How to get data privacy Anna: How technology can play a key role in collective self awareness about gender based violence Drishya: Highlighting the collective feminine experiences with new technologies

The possible topics to work with are wearable technology surveillance Augmented Reality Speculative design Artistic representation of the topics Use technology to understand our social problems How to use technology to protect us and understand us balance within technology as an individal, as a collective, as society what for? what’s at stake? health of our mind and body? radically situated? emboding this type of violence

The possible narratives could be Interactive and speculative respresentation of a social problem Restistance and subversion processes “what if” narrative

What is the criteria? our intervention has to be critical, transparent, feminist, inclusive and powerful

Materials MDEFEST - a space to display our interactive exhibition. we will need a lot of plugs because we are going to use electronics.

Local Ecosystem - Communitites (how and with who) - common/GENERAL PUBLIC

Activities (workshops, installations, talks, etc.)

Individual - Anna: dance performance, dialogues - Dhrishya: Sexual health workshop, - Carmen: surveillance machine with mental health diagnostic Collective An exhibition that goes deep on the concept of identity. it grows from you to the others (either communities or technology) A pathway of the different states of an identity in a digital world. A representation of the violence society goes through representing of rising mental health problems about identity Final Dance Performance with new language of 10 minutes EXHIBITION Exhibit of Annas sensor + printer Interactive exhibition and performance about data privacy and mental health apps - a place to make the machine like screen, camera, a computer. For ads: projector, computer AR HEALTH Workshop: Trying out the sensors (Anna) Drish Performance newspaper

Venues

  • Fabra i coats
  • Canodrom?
  • ATENEU EL POBLET
  • Ateneu de Gracia
  • Espronceda
  • tmdc
  • Pasaje montoya

Keywords: Resistance, Speculation, Reflect, Violence, Awareness, Protect, Value, Identity, Health, Technology

Reflection

It has been quite challenging to navigate this course, especially since organizing a project without a clear topic was difficult. I literally changed my topic when we started this course, so communicating and reaching agreements with others without a clear direction was tough. It’s been a complex journey, but I believe we now have a good starting point: to explore the intersection of identity and technology, whether through performance or embodiments, and to foster reflection rather than creating problem-solving products. Over the past month, I’ve changed my mind 25 times, making it challenging to organize how to approach the festival properly. Additionally, finding a suitable venue is a major concern for me. However, I hope to start securing spaces soon as I’m making more contacts, which should make it easier to find venues that allow us to host the event for free.