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Experience two live interactive performances by Roxana Barba at 8 PM on October 18th and 19th at Mad Arts in Dania Beach. In her new work, In my center, a cyborg seed, Barba explores questions related to the future, divination, and transformation. Tickets are priced at $30/performance and include general museum admission.
Inspired by Peruvian Pallar Moche, an ancestral black and white “oracle bean,” and the human body in the post-human age, this performance deals with the algorithmic and the divine. In my center, a cyborg seed features face and motion capture performance, audio reactive and 3D animations, and two performers. These come together to explore the cyborg seed-body, questioning how we define technology in relation to mortality and transcendence.
Directed by Peruvian, Miami-based artist Roxana Barba and performed by Lize-Lotte Pitlo and Britney Tokumoto, this work draws from ancestral Peruvian cosmology to explore alternative narratives of the future that can help shine a different light on today’s challenges.
During a 4-day residency at Mad Arts in the summer of 2023, and in collaboration with a team of multidisciplinary artists and technologists, Barba explored generative cycles between movement, motion tracking, and live interactive sound using Kinect cameras, TouchDesigner, light sensors, and other software. MadLabs also provided Barba with the essential technological support to develop facial and motion-capture material for the performance, allowing Barba to bring her vision to life.
In my center, a cyborg seed is one of six 2022 Knight New Works and a recipient of a 2024 NALAC Fund for the Arts.
ABOUT ROXANA BARBA
Roxana Barba (b. 1976, Lima, Peru) uses speculative fiction, performance, installation, and video. Her work explores interconnections of cultural memory and identity, relationships of power, healing rituals, and myth. Driven by the performative body, her multidisciplinary arts practice combines critical thinking, poetry as gesture of denunciation, and mythical narratives.
Barba has been awarded a 2024 NALAC Fund for the Arts, a 2023 South Arts Individual Artist Grant, and a 2023 Mentorship Award by the U.S. Latinx Art Forum. She is one of six 2022 Knight New Work winners working towards In my center, a cyborg seed, a real-time interactive performance with an interdisciplinary team of artists and technologists. She also received a Knight Arts Challenge award in 2019 and commission support from the Alianza Cultural Francesa de Lima to present Apuntes Americanos in Lima, Peru in 2022. Barba has exhibited nationally with The Latinx Project at NYU, Doral Contemporary Art Museum, Laundromat Art Space, and Edge Zones Gallery. Barba is a resident artist at Laundromat Art Space in Little Haiti, Miami.
Date & Time
Oct 18 - 19, 2024
Venue Details
Mad Arts
481 South Federal HighwayDania Beach, Florida 33004
