Performance on Santa Monica Beach
\nLaboratory for Embodied Intelligences
\nMay 28, 2017
\n4 – 5 PM
\nThe Laboratory for Embodied Intelligences will be offering a free public performance on the Santa Monica beach cliff this Memorial Day weekend – come join us on your way coming or going to the beach. Followed by a picnic-reception for the public to dialogue with artists and scientists.
\nPlace: Watch from just next to the cannon monument in Santa Monica bluff\/cliff-side Palisades Park overlooking the beach and the pier. The cannon is a few hundred feet south of Santa Monica (across from the Georgian hotel, 1415 Ocean Ave, Santa Monica).
\nThe dancers will begin at the beach (they will be visible from the cliffside park), then move across the pedestrian overpass, up the stairs, and into the cliffside park next to the audience.
\nRun-time: around 30-45 minutes.
\nOptional movement\/relaxation workshop to follow:
\nA 30 minute mini-workshop, beginning w\/a relaxing meditation that allows the public to experience microbial weightlessness in their own bodies, followed by simple movement games developed to give people a bodily sense of microbes social attunement.
\nPicnic reception follows, in which the public is invited to dialogue with a visiting national expert in astrobiology, along with the artists and dancers.
\nPARKING: Free public parking is available in city lots for 90 minutes throughout Santa Monica. Street parking is also available on Ocean Ave along the park.
\nABOUT THE LABORATORY
\nFollowing a thrilling year in SETI Institute\u2019s Artist in Residence Program, Nina Waisman has brought her Laboratory for Embodied Intelligences (LEI) to The 18th Street Arts Center. She is joined by founding member and movement expert Flora Wiegmann.
\nIn Spring of 2017, LEI will be offering site-specific performances, along with workshops that offer perspective-shifting meditations and embodiment exercises to the public. Both activities aim to make physically palpable LEI\u2019s ongoing discoveries around the following questions: How can humans \u201ctry on\u201d non-human behaviors in order to perceive them viscerally, gaining knowledge unavailable through classic data analysis? What can we learn from the highly successful behaviors and communication methods our microbial colleagues and ancestors employ? How do animal and human logics and languages compare to microbial behaviors?
\nWe evolved from microbes, but only recently did we learn that \u201call mobile unicellular organisms possess the fundamental characteristics of nervous systems\u201d (Dr. Lori Marino). Perhaps fundamental cognitive capacities and “modes of reason” we think unique to humans belong in some form to microbes. We know that they communicate – in fact, they are multi-lingual. They have survived and communicated with each other over 3.5 billion years. Surely there are a few things we can learn from cultures exponentially more long-lived and adapted than we are?
\nLooking into the future, astrobiologists agree that microbes are the most likely form of life we will encounter out in the cosmos. Can our terrestrial bacteria help us communicate with or understand these extraterrestrials?
\nThrough performances, along with science-driven meditations and movement exercises, LEI seeks to give us access to some of the vast treasure of behaviors and communication techniques invented and enacted by microbes. Cognitive scientists have found that to exercise a new behavior is to open the mind to a whole new suite of logics.
\nNina Waisman\u2019s residency and its associated collaborative public events and performances are made possible with generous funding from the City of Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Department, the California Arts Council, and The James Irvine Foundation.
\nCollaborators and Performers with the Laboratory for Embodied Intelligences:
\nVanessa Baish
\nJonathan Bryant
\nAlfonso Cervera
\nHyosun Choi
\nHyoin Jun
\nNehara Kalev
\nMurphia Moore
\nJasmine Orpilla
\nGabriela Simon
\nJuliana Snapper
\nMicaela Taylor
\nFlora Wiegmann
\nMiles Brenninkmeijer
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