Hum Under the Riverstone
We asked the stone for an axiom, and it gave us a poem instead
Hum Under the Riverstone explores different forms of connection and dialogue that can unfold among various kinds of intelligences: human, natural, and machinic. The title of this project draws inspiration from Édouard Glissant and his concept of archipelagic thinking.
This poet, playwright, and essayist contrasts two perspectives: that of continental thinking and that of archipelagic thinking. According to Glissant, through continental or systematic thinking “we see the world as a block, or at large, or at once, as a kind of imposing synthesis, just as we can, by way of general aerial views, see the configurations of landscapes and mountainous areas as they pass by”; in contrast, “with archipelagic thinking, one can glimpse the river’s smallest pebbles and the shadow holes in the water that form underneath them, where freshwater crabs still live.”
Thus, this performance seeks precisely to find those shadow holes in the water, that hum under the riverstone, and to ask what other kinds of relationships and connections we might establish between humans and machines.
Hum Under the Riverstone was created through a collaboration of the members of the Human-Machine Interaction Networks Directed Research Group, coordinated by DXARTS Assistant Professor Laura Luna Castillo.
Participants
Artistic Director: Laura Luna Castillo
Associate artistic director: Cristina Brambila
Choreographers:
Rose Xu
Ifeyinwa Onyekonwu
Spencer Morga
Echo Zhou
Performers:
Rose Xu
Spencer Morga
Ifeyinwa Onyekonwu
Echo Zhou
Mary Jane Senger
Dasha Orlov
Samantha Tien
Emily Jiang
Vincent Le
Sadie Frisvold
Music:
Daniel Peterson
Natalia Quintanilla Cabrera