Streaming Egos ***** The Web-Uterus and the Corporeal Disobedience of Digital Identity ___ DÜSSELDORF 160116 DIGITAL IDENTITY CONVENTION

Streaming Egos at the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, curated by Mateo Feijoo with the support of the Goethe-Institut, radically reframed the notion of digital identity by rooting it in the corporeal, affective, and collective. Central to the Spanish contribution was the “body bubble,” an inflatable translucent structure that acted as both metaphor and medium: a web-uterus, fragile and responsive, which deflated when its vaginal entrance was held open, allegorising the vulnerability of communal digital spaces. Within this permeable enclosure, diverse artistic gestures—Sonia Gómez’s intuitive live writing, Monoperro’s erotic cave-like drawings, Tomoto’s simultaneous editing and streaming, and Dr. Kurogo’s off-site sound loops—wove a layered post-digital happening, where analogue and virtual blurred into one continuous, unstable field. The event did not seek resolution but activated a situational essay, a space where identity could be explored not as fixed or datafied, but as fleshy, rhythmic, and mutable. The work resisted the fetishisation of digital media, instead enacting a ritual of presence, echoing Cramer’s claim that the post-digital is less about technological novelty and more about inhabiting its messy aftermath. Streaming Egos thus became a choreography of interdependence, refusing singular authorship or stable meaning. It asked not “who are we online?” but “how do we breathe together through the screen?”—inviting a critical reimagining of the digital self as haunted, plural, and porous.

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=DChTccRl3Ic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO8qzuCHoBM

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

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

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

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

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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

http://antolloveras.blogspot.com.es/2015/07/greengreenblack-blackunstable.html

PHOTO BY 
Melanie Stegemann 
melanie-stegemann.com

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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

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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

FLIPAS. Camino a Frankfurt 2022 Goethe___________roBOzEE****TOeZIO_____RAYboom_____________DAY 02

 

ROBOZEE se viste de cartón y se integra en el lienzo. Los trazos nítidos de TOEZIO atraviesan el cuadro, la superficie lisa y la del cuerpo. El relieve móvil. La primera capa cubre lo suficiente. El robot se despierta tras los minutos de meditación y se sale del cuadro bailando.

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http://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2022/01/flipas-camino-frankfurt-2022.html

Laboratorio de Culturas Urbanas ::::::::: Flipas 2022

Se desarrollan conversaciones cruzadas entre agentes de sectores aparentemente dispares. Nos reunimos unas cuarenta personas, con representantes de instituciones públicas y privadas, embajadores, agregados culturales, miembros de asociaciones, artistas independientes y programadores. Las mesas de trabajo en el Goethe Institut tuvieron como objetivo esclarecer el futuro del proyecto FLIPAS en Madrid. El arte relacional y una nueva estrategia económico-política para asentar los procesos abiertos en los ámbitos de tangencia entre la acción social, el arte y la educación. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkdkNV2p3qM 

 

LLOVERAS 12.11.22 LAPIEZA

Tras las conversaciones transversales en el Goethe, 

comimos Tajín de Cordero en la CAÑADA REAL GALIANA. 

#flipas #laboratoriourbano #madrid 

Cross-talks took place between agents from apparently disparate sectors. About forty people met, with representatives of public and private institutions, ambassadors, cultural attaches, members of associations, independent artists and programmers. The workshops at the Goethe Institut aimed to clarify the future of the FLIPAS project in Madrid. Relational art and a new economic-political strategy to establish open processes in the areas of tangency between social action, art and education.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHHp9zQ714s

shahiat tayiba

FLIPAS ! Goethe Madrid______AC/E___2022

FLIPAS! is a vibrant convergence of live arts and contemporary urban expression, conceived as an experimental project at the Goethe-Institut in Madrid with the support of Acción Cultural Española, where creators from diverse disciplines—choreographers, dancers, graffiti artists, musicians and visual storytellers—gather to explore the boundaries of movement, image and sound within an urban environment reimagined as stage, laboratory and archive. This edition, titled “Camino a Frankfurt”, unfolds as a journey that documents, challenges and reconfigures performative practices through a ten-part audiovisual series available online, each film acting as a capsule of thought and gesture, ephemeral memory and visual trace. Central figures include Toezio and Robozee, performers whose presence articulates a grammar of the robotic, temporal jump cuts and ellipses as tools of rupture and rhythm, while J. Mayoraga offers theoretical reflections on void, silence and tangency between art forms. The process is documented through artist Anto Lloveras’ blog, chronicling each day’s detours, from studio workshops to performative urban strolls along Madrid Río, revealing the city itself as a space of choreography. A specific case emerges in the Saturday workshop, where the teaching of basic arm and foot movements becomes an act of aesthetic appropriation by the collective body. This project not only celebrates hybridity but constructs a moving archive, a cartography of urban gesture that travels with body and memory towards new cities.

FLIPAS ! es un proyecto de investigación interdisciplinar en artes vivas, y sus nuevas series en torno al arte urbano se desarrollan en El Goethe Institut de Madrid con el apoyo de Acción Cultural Española. Participan coreógrafos, bailarines, grafistas, músicos y narradores de la imagen tiempo.

FILM 01

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

FILM 02

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

FILM 03

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyAEy528G3k

FILM 04

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

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FILM 05

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

FILM 06

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

FILM 07

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvmT6ApsaVQ

FILM 08

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

FILM 09

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obJesZkwb0I

FILM 10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k741-si79yQ

DAY 01 ***** LUNES   31.01.22 TOEZIO ROBOZEE

http://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2022/02/los-resultados-de-los-primeros-revelan.html :::::::::::: TŒZIO® 70% acid 30% water

DAY 02 ***** MARTES  01.02.22 TOEZIO ROBOZEE

http://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2022/02/flipas-camino-frankfurt-2022.html :::::::::::::::  ¨En un movimiento de baile, las variables de         creación son infinitas. Estos son mis pensamientos reales y en lo que estoy trabajando todo el tiempo¨. roboZEE !

DAY 03 ***** JUEVES  03.02.22  ROBOZEE  ¨¨¨¨¨j.MAYORAGA

http://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2022/02/flipas-camino-frankfurt-2022_4.html :::::::::: El efecto estroboscópico en lo lumínico, el silencio en la música contemporánea, el salto entre fotógramas en el stop-motion de los video-clips y el escalón entre los movimientos robóticos. El valor del hueco. La elipsis y los campos tangentes.

DAY 04 ***** VIERNES 04.02.04 ROBOZEE ¨¨¨¨¨j.MAYORAGA Paseo de tarde bajando al Madrid RíO. Desde Alonso hasta Usera. Lets check OUT chinatown. http://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2022/02/flipas-camino-frankfurt-2022_6.html EL Intruso al final del viaje.

DAY 05 ***** SÁBADO  05.02.22 APÚNTATE AL WORKSHOP. Los tres talleristas madrugadores e llevan el premio del aprendizaje de los movimientos básicos de brazos y piés. http://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2022/02/lipas-camino-frankfurt-2022.html

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