A Cyborg Anti-Porno

"A Cyborg Anti-Porno" (2023) 

Director + Writer: MK Ford

Performers + Choreographers + Collaborators: Dan Ortiz Leizman + Ford
Sound: Mars Rover singing "Happy Birthday" and Brian Eno "LUX 2". Edited by Ford.

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This ScreenDance explores concepts of Cyborgs, Glitch, Time Lapsing, and other Queer Phenomenologies. This product utilizes stock motion and other generalized gestures from Mixamo.com, dance choreography, and everyday relational rituals. Amplified, the choreography is woven by motion capture material created uniquely by Ortiz Leizman and Ford. Throughout the piece, Ford's poem serves as a disruptor, narrator, and agitator aimed at lapsing the complexities of machines, machine learning, systemic infrastructure, and agents of autonomy. The sound selection highlights notions of isolation, relation, co-dependency, and antithetis.

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The intention of this work is to highlight the avenues of a glitch - wherein failure, subversion, satire, and intimate authenticity are all possible. Building on Donna J. Haraway's "A Cyborg Manifesto", this ScreenDance interrogates the slippage between machine technology and streamlining norms. Ultimately, this work explores what it means to be a cyborg in a world of technologies - digital and organic - and how our bodies and imaginations intervene, glitch, critique, and activate.

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A cyborg blurs the line between human and machine. 

A cyborg blurts the line between humans and machines. 

A cyborg hurts in time between humans and machines.

A cyborg hurts in times between human's machines.

A cyborg haunts in time between human's machines.

A cyborg haunts time between human's machines.

A cyborg halts time between human's machines.

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