Under the Surface of Images: Low-tech images produced by handheld devices for performance practice

‘Under the surface of images’ is a phrase used by Michel Foucault in the book Discipline and Punish when referring to the means in which Surveillance is implicated in the discipline, regulation, and normalisation of the body. Here in this paper is used to understand what can be unveil by low-tech images from two different situations: the first concerns Jazmine Headley’s case that had happen in the United States in 2018. The second is related with my practice as an artist and the use of handheld devices in my live performance This is a Low-Tech Movie . In the paper I propose to discuss the use of technology devices as tools for visibility and emotional memory imprint – as described by the neuroscientist Boris Cyrulnik – and how this knowledge can be used in performance practice. The paper is be divided into two main sections, one related to technology and ways of perception, with articles from Jonathan Crary, Camille Barker, and Boris Cyrulnik and, one to the discussion of the concept of 'low-tech image' or 'poor image' produced by handheld devices and developed in my own performance practice.

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Eunice G Duarte: http://www.semaforo.cc

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Publication date: July 2020

Publication date (Print): July 2020

Pages: 158-165

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[0001]Atelier Concorde, Portugal

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2020.28

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Conference name: Proceedings of EVA London 2020

Conference acronym: EVA 2020

Conference number: 30

Conference location: London

Conference date: 6th July – 9th July 2020

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: AI and the Arts: Artificial Imagination

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C Baker 2019 New Directions in Mobile Media and Performance New York Routledge
P Bouvier 2019 ‘Interview with Boris Cyrulnik’ in International Review of the Red Cross, 101 Memory and Trauma Cambridge University Press 11 36
W Benjamin 1992 ‘A Obra de Arte na Era da sua Reprodutibilidade Técnica’ in Sobre Arte, Técnica, Linguagem e Política, Lisbon, Relógio d’Água 73 110 [Portuguese translation]
B Cyrulnik 2013 ‘Emotion and Drama’ in Medicographia, N. º 116 35 3 A Servier Publication 265 270
J Crary 1989 ‘Spectacle, Attention, Counter-Memory’ 1989 October 50 Autumn 1989 96 107
S Dixon 2007 Digital Performance: A History of New Media in Theatre, Dance, Performance Art and Installation Cambridge, MIT Press Books
A SouthallN Stuart 2018 ‘The Grabbed Her Baby and Arrested Her. Now Jazmine Headley is Speaking Out’ The New York Times 16 December 2018
H Steyerl 2009 'In Defence of the Poor Image' E-Flux, 10 November https://www.eflux.com/journal/10/61362/in-defense-of-the-poor-image/ 1 January 2016

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[1] C Baker 2019 New Directions in Mobile Media and Performance New York Routledge

[2] P Bouvier 2019 ‘Interview with Boris Cyrulnik’ in International Review of the Red Cross, 101 Memory and Trauma Cambridge University Press 11 36

[3] W Benjamin 1992 ‘A Obra de Arte na Era da sua Reprodutibilidade Técnica’ in Sobre Arte, Técnica, Linguagem e Política, Lisbon, Relógio d’Água 73 110 [Portuguese translation]

[4] B Cyrulnik 2013 ‘Emotion and Drama’ in Medicographia, N. º 116 35 3 A Servier Publication 265 270

[5] J Crary 1989 ‘Spectacle, Attention, Counter-Memory’ 1989 October 50 Autumn 1989 96 107

[6] S Dixon 2007 Digital Performance: A History of New Media in Theatre, Dance, Performance Art and Installation Cambridge, MIT Press Books

[7] A SouthallN Stuart 2018 ‘The Grabbed Her Baby and Arrested Her. Now Jazmine Headley is Speaking Out’ The New York Times 16 December 2018

[8] H Steyerl 2009 'In Defence of the Poor Image' E-Flux, 10 November https://www.eflux.com/journal/10/61362/in-defense-of-the-poor-image/ 1 January 2016

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