A dynamic interdisciplinary collective exploring intimacy, community, and embodiment through immersive performance, choreography, neuroscience, and cultural production.
A collaboration between artists and neuroscientists, "Please Don’t Turn Me Off (PDTMO)” combines dance theatre, cognitive data visualisation, soundscape and club culture to create synchronicity, connectivity and mental well-being between and of participants. PDTMO considers the impact transhumanist principles and actions have on society in both subtle and overt ways. Showing how the erotic, both as a sexual drive and a philosophical concept, shapes the cultural spheres, the installation plays with the concept of arousal as both a sexual state and a physiological response with the potential for transcendence.
The night begins with an immersive performance, a living installation, by Jao and Black Venus. Follow the story of two muses, one android, the other human, as the narrative shape-shifts; moving from real time performance to video, the tale is carried along by heartwarming soundscapes, poetry and live music from a Chinese harpist.
Taking place in EartH Hackney, a beloved venue in the heart of Dalston, the performance will be followed by a club night. Rave into the early hours of the morning, with phenomenal DJs serving eclectic, global sounds - breakbeat, hip-hop, techno, house and much more.
SCHEDULE
DOORS - 9PM
IMMERSIVE PERFORMANCE - 9.30-11PM
CLUB NIGHT w/DJs 11PM-3.30PM
Expect a seamless transition from performance to rave…