Montag, 14 Juli, 2025 - 09:36
All The Rivers Dance Residency: cables cables cables
Kulshedra
Shy Verstraete
row särkelä-bassett
Rio Hackenberg
Ig/a Śśćk
We will research, performatively map, and offer somatic tours of Berlin’s data center infrastructures in order to investigate the social, ecological, and political impacts of big tech and cloud computing. The goal is to physicalize and somaticize big tech so that people can be more empowered to make choices about how we deal with data, energy, and its connection to global warfare. As dancers against war and genocide, we are motivated to research data centers and cloud infrastructure because of these technologies’ increasing centrality in the capacity of powers such as US-Israel murder Palestinians, with weapons delivered straight from Germany and our military budget. For example, mere hours after Israel’s ceasefire violation, Google announced its largest acquisition ever: cloud security startup Wiz, founded by former members of the Israeli military’s secret intelligence unit. Cloud computing and data centers are becoming increasingly important links (and potentially its weak links) in the chain of military command.
Our chosen methods will be power mapping, site exploration, somatic connection and performances, map-making, and written documentation. We will develop experimental accessibility techniques at the intersection of site exploration, Feldenkrais and audio description for our somatic tours and in our collective’s performances at various sites of the data supply chain.
As part of the series All The Rivers