Choreographed and performed by Reuben Macdougall Di Manno
Generationz
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Images and footage courtesy of Tom Salisbury, Olivia Fisher, and Olivia Millard, Deakin University
Part of the Deakin University 2022 graduation season Inspiration is Not a Special Occasion.
“Generationz is a semi-durational improvisation piece emerging from an interest in artificial intelligence. Specific digital tools – as well as the Internet as a whole – generate content in a fundamentally new way. It is iterative, grassroots, and while it reflects evolutionary principles, each ‘generation’ of content lives and dies at lightning speed. A cohort of emerging artists have grown up with the Internet omnipresent in their lives, and Generationz takes its place in this emerging field of young artists. These processes are used to create a defiantly minimalist and analogue performance.”
“You know what’s interesting about stillness and duration and meditation? In ‘real life’ it’s impossible for me to have any of this. The older I get the more activity and the more obligations I have. The pace is so fast. I’m literally running after myself. So I need to create these islands of time. Then I go through this transformation in the work; work transforms me, and then I use this experience in ‘real life’. Normally it’s the other way round: you do something, then you use it for your performance. My work is basically a learning experience.”
