Pov, performative lecture by Maria Luigia Gioffre, with dancers Laura Cemin and Chiara Serafini
Part Residency Vienna in collaboration with University of Applied Arts Vienna, AT
photo credits: Simon Batsakis

The performative lecture ‘POV’ is a study presented as part of my visiting research affiliation at Angewandte Performance Lab, Vienna. Presented at the ‘Public Colloquium’ Symposium organised by the PhD Arts of die Angewandte, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria, in collaboration with Part Residency Vienna. 

The intervention, intended as practice-based intervention in the symposium, engages with the notion of “disordered attention” (Bishop, 2024), through presenting a durational dance piece set within a museum space during a conference. Using doomscrolling as a choreographic method and turning digital consumption into choreographic material, the intervention explores how dancing bodies in real-time composition are affected by the continuous flow of social media reel-based content and how audience reaction is affected by repetion. Moving through the museum and the conference environment, viewers encounter the performance partially, intermittently, and from shifting positions. As their gaze is interrupted by artworks, conversations, and the temporal rhythm of the event itself, spectators inhabit the same condition of disordered attention that the performance explores.