STREAMING EGOS ////////////////////////////////// DÜSSELDORF //////// GOETHE INSTITUT ///////////// POSITIONAL ESSAYS ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: SITUATIONAL FIXERS

The project Streaming Egos at the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, convened under the auspices of the Goethe-Institut, unfolded as a collective experiment in re-imagining digital identity as embodied practice. The curatorial direction of Mateo Feijoo placed emphasis on situating the “ego” not as an abstracted online avatar but as a relational organism, vulnerable, porous, and fundamentally corporeal. The Spanish contribution, encapsulated in the body bubble installation, condensed this ethos with striking clarity. It posited that “we never leave the body behind,” whether mediated through screens or immersed in live action. The bubble,  functioned both as metaphor and container: a temporary “web-uterus” housing performers, texts, sound, and live transmissions. Its fragility—losing air whenever its vaginal entrance was held open—became an allegory of the precarious commons of digital communication. The event unfolded as an orchestration of heterogeneous practices: Sonia Gómez’s live writing, Monoperro’s erotic cave drawings, Tomoto’s simultaneous editing and streaming, and the spectral presence of Dr. Kurogo’s looped music. This constellation produced what might be termed a post-digital happening, where the analogue and the virtual were not opposites but continuous intensities. Such a staging resonates with contemporary theories of post-digital culture, where artistic practices resist the fetish of technology and instead emphasise the entanglement of flesh, memory, and media. As Cramer notes, “the post-digital is about the messy realities of living with and within digital culture, not its celebration” (Cramer 2014). Düsseldorf’s experiment affirmed this messiness, oscillating between absurdity, intimacy, and collective ritual. The situational character of the project—its capacity to be both performance and documentary—extended beyond the NRW-Forum through a network of translations, video essays, and subsequent activations in Madrid. Here the notion of “positional essays” emerges not as fixed statements but as unstable gestures, oscillating between testimony, fiction, and critical fabulation. The ego-network was never singular; it was always plural, distributed, unsettled. In this sense, Streaming Egos resisted the flattening of identity into data, instead proposing that the digital self is layered with atmosphere, memory, and ritual. Its contribution lies not in resolving the question “who are we online?” but in staging the tensions that sustain it.

DÜSSELDORF

Digital Identity Convention NRW-Forum Düsseldorf

ONSITE ACTION AND CONVERSATION
WITH MATEO FEIJOO, 
THE INVITED ARTISTS
MONOPERRO, MARIO CANNEVACI, SONIA GÓMEZ + + +
WITH THE SUPPORT OF GOETHE INSTITUT
AND THE RELATION WITH THE EUROPEAN egoNETWORKS

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqEtBYImmEE

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpL4i_PJvpY

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IM INVITED TO ACTIVATE MY ART SERIES AND RITUALS
IN A CONTEXT OF CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE
AND STAGE POST COREOGRAPHY

Spain’s “body bubble” was an incredibly rich and timely contribution to the question of “who are we when we are online?” It clearly positioned itself as post-digital reinforcing not only the alteratiosn/extensions of the ego in the “parallel space” of the internet, but it stressed that inside or outside the web, we are embodied human beings. The body never leaves us behind, nor do we leave it behind…  The fluidity between the five artists involved in the exhibit, carefully put together by curator-conductor Mateo Feijoo, and working each in a different medium, brought this “bubbled self” alive, making it into a post-digital-happening. All media involved reflected on the way we communicate and interact online: the looped music by Dr. Kurogo who was sadly off site; the live writing action by the charming performer Sonia Gómez who covered the bubble with German words, arbitrarily, according to their rhyme and feel, like in a surrealist poem; the tattooed body triptych made by an off site artist; and the live-recorded-edited-and-streamed version of the event by TOMOTO. If only the event had taken place the way TOMOTO recorded it! All of these media however were connected by the strong presence of Monoperro’s live “cave drawings" with a sexual under- and overtone. Monoperro’s illustrations uncovering the body’s “secrets", uncovering that which is imagined but never outspoken, that which is not seen but intuited, brought this exhibit into a completely new dimension. As a whole, this analogue media-orchestra reminded a bit of the Theater of the Absurd or a dream-sequence in Buñuel, pointing out that the web, as much as any “alteration of the ego” brings out what is deeply rooted in the self.  This is something visceral. Something fleshy. Something intimate. Something personal. The shared “space” of the web was then literally covered by a beautiful bubble structure, a web-uterus, created by the architects Plastique Fantastique. When we opened up the vaginal “doors” for too long, the bubble let out too much air so that it started deflating. This made me wonder, how can we take out the communal air from the internet? Bravo Mateo Feijoo and his team of artists for bringing the streaming egos alive!

Bernardette / GUEST CRITIC

THE SITUATION IN DÜSSELDORF

IS EXTENDING 

THE POSITIONAL ESSAYS 
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RAW IDENTITY VIDEO SERIES - ///////////////////////////////
SITUATION, CONTEXT AND MEMORY - ONGOING META DOCUMENTARY

AND 

THE TRANSLATORIAL - 

UNSTABLE CHROMATIC FIXERS -
ADDING BODIES AND ATMOSPHERES TO THE SERIES

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BROWN SERIES
NO LEFTOVERS
http://antolloveras.blogspot.com.es/2016/01/brown-cadiz-supernaturalno-leftovers.html

SERIES

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PHOTO BY 
Melanie Stegemann 
melanie-stegemann.com

EXTENDED EGOS MADRID JUNE 2016 :::::::::
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http://antolloveras.blogspot.com.es/2016/06/streaming-egos-extended-madrid-june.html

RECENT WORKS AND SITUATIONS - 2015 / 2016

THAT CONNECT WITH THE ONGOING SUPERNATURAL SERIES

AND

THE ONLINE EXHIBITIONS OF LAPIEZA

MUDAS SERIES MUDAS - MUTE SERIES - MEXICO CITY - 12.2015
http://antolloveras.blogspot.com.es/2016/01/mudasnuevas-series-mudasoxidaciones.html

THE LIGHT ON THE RICE FIELDS - SPAIN 11.15
http://antolloveras.blogspot.mx/2015/11/the-ligh-on-rice-fields-vejer-cadiz.html 

AS FAR AS THE ARM CAN REACH - NORWAY 10.15 SUPERNATURAL
http://antolloveras.blogspot.com.es/2015/11/substractionautumnconceptual.html 

DUNA DUNAJ - SLOVAKIA - 09.15
http://antolloveras.blogspot.sk/2015/09/duna-dunaj-slovakia-september-2015.html 

MIMESIS - SPAIN 08.15
http://antolloveras.blogspot.com.es/2015/08/mimesistime-and-honor2015negradas.html 

SITUATIONAL FIXERS - PRAGUE - 06.15
http://antolloveras.blogspot.cz/2015/06/prague-quadrennial-of-performance-and.html 

THE LIGHT IN PROVENCE - FRANCE 05.15
http://antolloveras.blogspot.com.es/2015/06/the-light-in-provence-2015.html 

THE CITY IS AN ANIMAL - TAXIDERMY LONDON 04.15
http://antolloveras.blogspot.com.es/2015/04/taxidermy-east-london-city-is-animal.html