Zander Porter: Emoji-bot [DuBTTR_off_alleine?]

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The opening will occur on August 5, 2021 at 19:00 in ACUD Galerie, featuring a bar and DJs (TBA). The exhibition will be open thereafter from 11:00 to 14:00 Tuesday through Saturday (not on Sundays/Mondays) until the finissage on August 24.

( ◡‿◡ *) Remember when grumpiness evolves in a rather short time towards a sense of longing and total existential evacuation… Some temporal segments are structured by concise “5, 6, 7.1, 8” – whereas others are documented impromptu and post-produced. Quadruplets presently demonstrate comparable rhythms; one emerged at the beginning with a camera attached to its face. Gathered within a social solo of (dis)embodied emote-reactions, their togetherness asks if similitude is always already algorithmic.

▓▒░(°◡°)░▒▓ Attitudinize… and plug into the wall-socket (full-recharge fantasy)! “Emoji-bot” is a four-player avatar with human’s feet-coverings, polygonal posture, and misapprehended grandeur – of mortality, sass, age, and pending resurrection. It-we enacts a “post-embodied performance”: an onscreen departure from a cute world of mediated liveness which has been recently (re)constructed.

( ˘ ɜ˘) ♬♪♫ Emoji-bot [DuBTTR_off_alleine?] marks the first solo exhibition in Berlin by Zander Porter and features performers ketia, Harald Stojan, and Annalise Van Even. The work is partially supported by NEUSTART KULTUR and Tanzbüro Berlin. The exhibition and ACUD MACHT NEU’s lavatories are wheelchair-accessible.