[spectre] Syndrome 3.0: The Post-Human Gospel

[marc garrett]

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Syndrome 3.0: The Post-Human Gospel

Review by Niki Russell

A night of performances, by artists whose entangled relation to 
technology seeks to posit new forms of identity and spirituality.

To many, technology and spirituality would seem antithetical. 
Contemporary technology is intertwined with modern science, whereas, 
spirituality is equally enmeshed within both religion and faith. The 
Post-Human Gospel self-consciously accepts this awkwardness, and 
manoeuvres these two uneasy bedfellows together. Offering up a night of 
performances, by artists whose entangled relation to technology seeks to 
posit new forms of identity and spirituality.

This is the latest in a series of events, collectively entitled 
Syndrome, seeking to explore the relationship between technology and 
affect in performance. The Post-Human Gospel marks the start of the 
third phase of this activity, collaboratively programmed by Mercy and 
The Hive Collective. If 3.0 is heading into the realm of spirituality, 
then earlier phases have played with both language and control – whether 
the constraints enforced on the body in virtual space, role-playing 
authority within the State Free State of a.P.A.t.T island, or a ‘room as 
instrument’ where you can physically manipulate sound and light. Across 
these events, those involved ask how we might interact or play with this 
technology, and in turn, how this experience might then act upon on us – 
our feelings and emotions?

http://furtherfield.org/features/reviews/syndrome-30-post-human-gospel