NXS is a new experimental printed publication, where each contributor comments and reflects on a previous contribution. NXS explores "the self" in the age of digital technology.
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CONTRIBUTIONS
El Popo Sangre
SILENCE IS NAKED
(LA)Horde
(LA)Horde is a french collective that develops a practice between performances and video works inspired by what they call ‘post-internet-dances’.
For NXS they chose to share a video of a performance "Novaciéries" they presented two years ago in Paris during the Museum Night at the Centre Georges Pompidou and answered a few questions.
NXS: What do you think post-internet dances reveal about online behaviours?
(LA)Horde: We try to question the body in the new immaterial world that internet is promising. This back-and-forth practice between the online and the offline is what we call 'post-internet-dance'. We believe the movement is augmented by both its passage in the online world and its coming back in the offline world.
NXS: What did you discover by bringing pieces of the digital world into a physical performance?
(LA)Horde: The moment of the performance, its duration in time, the physical connection of a spectator facing a dancer… This is for us the strongest of all emotions. There is also a certain relation of giving for giving, this idea that every person attending lives the same moment, shares the same experience.
NXS: The performers look alike, disguising behind gradient masks and gabber aesthetics...
(LA)Horde: All of our performers use pseudos. When we contacted them through Youtube or other social networks it was sometimes difficult to get their “real”, legal identity. That’s how the idea of using masks came up. For this first piece we wanted to respect their intimacy and only display their online image.
Min Jie
YOU ARE ANGRY WHEN YOU ARE CUTE
Scry Crystal
LOVE PORTAL KIT
Olga Fedorova
SWIMMING POOL
ABOUT NXS
NXS is a biannual publication that experiments with innovative content consideration and brings together different points of view. With a diverse selection of upcoming or established theorists and practitioners, NXS builds up its content on an initial position and interlaced articles, essays, interviews and artistic work referring to each other.
NXS aims to explore the emotional and sensual side of hardware, software and algorithms, that normally have been assessed by their functionality, aesthetics and ethics. NXS invites artists, theorists, poets and off-context cultural participator to capture the current emotional status of our networked society and hardware-enhanced relationships.
NXS ISSUE #1 – CYBER SENSUALITY
For its first volume NXS has focused on Cyber Sensuality. We have developed an intimate relationship with the technological tools we use. Screens have become the surfaces of our feelings, connecting and isolating us at the same time. We experience reality through machines. The symbiosis between humans and machines has catalysed new understandings of gender, normality, nature and being human. We sleep with our phones under our blankets, we practice sexting in the metro. We have jumped from the touch of human skin to a VR erotic experience, and can now satisfy any of our fetishes or fantasies online. These behaviours redefine how human beings can be portrayed through the machine as an echo of the non-virtual. How does the mutated “self” look like?
Contributions by:
Ines alpha (FR)
Trudy Barber (UK)
Katrina Burch (UK/NL)
Marilou Chabert (FR)
Scry de Doria (FR)
Aiden Doyle (AU)
Jason Ebeyer (AU)
ElpopoSangre (FR)
Esteban Gonzalez (FR)
Olga Mikh Fedorova (RU/BE)
Margaret V Haines (CA)
Min Jie (CN)
Anja Kaiser (DE)
Jacob Kerray (UK)
Célestin Krier (FR)
Agnese Krivade (LV)
LA HORDE (FR)
Hector Latrille (FR)
Matt McMullen (USA)
PrismViews (US)
Rachel-Rose O'Leary (IE)
Raf Rennie (CA)
Reese Riley(USA)
Nicole Ruggiero (USA)
Helin Sahin (US/TR)
Jack Self (UK)
Yung Soft (FR)
Marie Tomanová (CZ/USA)
Ultrabianka (AT)
Lauris Veips (LV)
Janine Vermeulen (NL)
Bruno Zhu (PT/NL)
Agnieszka Zimolag (PL/NL)