«CATALYSTS – Somatic Resonance» is an augmented reality app of somatic states from the work of Icelandic choreographer Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir. The exhibition is a choreography of mixed reality technologies, kinaesthetic algorithms, affects, archival material and live bodies. Download the CATALYSTS app to immerse yourself in the resonant states of the dancers informed by Guðjónsdóttir’s meditative de-conditioning practice «FULL DROP into the Body». States of affective potential arise from awakening latent energies over time, across media and flesh, expanding what dance can be and how bodies can remember.

This work is created by an interdisciplinary team of artists and researchers and is an intervention in the tensions and potential of current digital cultures. It participates in ongoing discussions around the expanded choreographies of inter-connectivity of mediated bodies, healing, feminism, notions of energetic citizenship, AI and the pathology of the wider social-political body within our bodies. Visitors to the exhibition carry the states from this choreographic exhibition outwards, like ripples in a collective somatic field.

Concept, choreography, author of performance works & somatic practice: Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir
Philosophy & archival concept: Susan Kozel
Editing, video creation for Tablet & Visual Concept: Jeannette Ginslov
AR/MR/AI Creation, interactive technologist: Keith Lim

Photos: Lasse Dahl, Jeannette Ginslov, David Kiers, Eva Schmidhuber
Original video footage: Jeannette Ginslov, Andrea Keiz, Eva Schmidhuber, Jens Sethzman, Antoine Verbièse
Printing of images: Magnus Denker
Original soundtracks: Peter Rehberg
Dancers in the archival video footage: Louise Dahl, Catherine Jodoin, Laura Siegmund, Angela Schubot, Marie Topp, Suet-Wan Tsang, Marie Ursin
Production management: Jill Emerson & Till Rothmund.

Supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
Co-produced by Data Society Research Program of Malmö University, Inter Arts Center, ICI Berlin, Open Spaces Tanzfabrik Berlin, WUK performing arts.