The NO!!!BOT: A Performance by Praba Pilar
Date & Time
Oct 31, 2018
from
05:30 PM to
07:30 PM
Location
Arena Theater, Wright Hall
Description
The NO!!!BOT visits the unnerving world of Exoskeletons to glitch 21st century technocolonialism: wordless, breathless, sexual and grotesque. Not an acquiescent programmed Robot nor a despicable malicious Bot, instead it is part of a series hurtling into our collective imaginaries to hack destructive code makers and generate our own deviant electric dreams.
First shared as a work in progress at the 2017 National Queer Arts Festival, the work premiered as a full performance at the LIVE BIENALE 2017 in Vancouver, and has since then been presented it at Toronto's Marshall McLuhan Centre and Brooklyn's Grace Performance Place among other places.
The performance will be followed by a discussion with the scholar/artist. You can find her recent essay here: Situating the Web of the Necro-Techno Complex: The Church of Nano Bio Info Congo.
This performance is presented as part of HATCH: FASS' Speculative Futures event featuring Ruha Benjamin, Aimee Bahng, and Lisa Ikemoto. More info at: http://hatch.ucdavis.edu/schedule/
