During Amsterdam Art Week, Nxt Museum presents Lagging Bodies, a performance programme exploring the frictions between bodies and technologies.
As technology continues to accelerate, Lagging Bodies makes space for lag, delay and the gap between body and machine. Rather than treating these frictions as something to fix, the programme approaches them as sites for resistance and imagination. It supports performance practices that challenge hyper-optimisation and polished digital aesthetics, foregrounding research, risk and process.
The first iteration, All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace, brings together practices that use myths, mysticism, ritual and magic as tools for navigating technology. Taking its title from Richard Brautigan’s poem, the programme looks at technology both as something to use and resist, while imagining alternative ways of living and relating to our increasingly digital environments.