MISSING BODIES.

Flooded by absence, suspended in time

SATURDAY, MARCH 1.

A workshop meeting to investigate the extractivism of platforms in performance society followed by a performance that brings the bodies of a music collective back into a missing physical space.

7:30 pm

BODIES BURNED.

talk lab

Collective of doctorandÉ™ and post-docs from Department of Social Sciences, University of Naples "Federico II"

The increasing pervasiveness of digital technologies and apps has radically transformed the way bodies are observed, quantified and categorized. This appointment explores the processes of body datafication, that is, the translation of physical experiences and identities into digital data, focusing on the dynamics of economic and symbolic value production that these processes generate. Through critical analysis of applications that monitor health, fitness, performance and everyday behaviors, we will discuss how digital practices not only reflect but also redefine social norms and bodily categorizations. Data generated by bodies are mined, aggregated and monetized, turning users into unwitting producers of value for platforms and creating new forms of exclusion and marginalization, which particularly affect bodies that deviate from socially defined and codified standards of "normality." The narratives that accompany these processes help shape cultural meanings related to the body, health, and performance. Let's find out how to understand and deconstruct the power mechanisms at work in body datafication

9:30 pm

MISSING EXTENSION

Live

A full collective performance to mark the release of the new record project

The project brings together the sounds and experiences of the six resident musicians of Al Muretto club, exploring the concept of Missing Extension: the loss of physical space replaced by the virtuality of the hyper-connected age. Hyperacoustics contrasts this individualism with authentic, shared listening. The album's six tracks investigate the dissolution of real space: Homo Dromo explores digital frenzy, Ossyum celebrates absence, Harrow fragments soundscapes, Deepfake Koi Pond blends organic and artificial elements, Jumping Between the Reefs evokes sensory memory, and Absolution dissolves sound into suspended time. Missing Extension is the Al Muretto club: a symbol of absence that invites reflection on our relationship with space, time and shared experience.

LIMINAL SPACE is a project of
Symposium cultural association
Via Giuseppe Libetta 21, 00154 - Rome