Bodies of the Water Disco

2 hour live performance and installation in Collaboration with Martina Morger, Algorithmen der Liebe, curated by Baronebreu, PTTH:// Gallery Luzern, Switzeland 2019

Water disco is a two hour live performance by Gemma Jones and Martina Morger that aims to explore the technological bodies of water inside us. By using metal tubes, viscose sequins and the body as a site, the two performers uncover relationships between liquidity, hardware and body.

As moving sculptures they aim to dribble, explore and slow down as these materials leak into each body creating a liquid and tentacular environment. In a world tinged with a controlling algorithmic score depicted as an unknown virus they represent the messy and entangled possibilities in the liquidity of technology -where the audience is quietly led to a place where terms like nature/other/us become sticky and damp. During the performance quantified information travels through vessels and hardware is seduced soothing the tubes inside of each of us. Furthermore The bodies use Touch as a way of not only about gathering information, but connecting us to our environment, where webs of intimacies then lead to more bodies of water.