Alice

For fifteen years, Anderson has been performing using the intelligence of the body by dancing « with » objects and spaces. In these intuitive « Technological Dances » the performer reactivates the strong link between the human and the nonhuman. Throughout this process lies the creation of paintings and sculptures, that « memorise » the objects and places of our anthropocene era.

Anderson’s technological objects are first « memorised » on the canvas through paint, revealing spectral traces as fossils or cave-paintings. Objects are then assembled as sculptures and crystallised by an eco-copper coloured wire, symbolising neuronal and technological connections. Materialised as « Spiritual Machines » these female presences of another dimension embody an ecological awareness.

Conducting research on the behaviour of atoms and on animism, Alice Anderson meet members of the Kogis community in the Sierra Nevada in Colombia. The meaning of their weaving rituals, their ecological fights and the confirmation of the interconnectedness of all « beings », have forged the artist's way of thinking about the evolution of artificial intelligence that transforms the earth, society and the body.