During Evidence in Motion: A clean slate Joost Koster and Alesya Dobysh & Max Frimout will explore the symbiotic relationship between the human and digital world through our daily use of screens.

Since the emergence of the smartphone and in particular, the touchscreen, their screens have become an (un) voluntarily companion to our daily lives and routines. Staring constantly into these windows that connect us to the digital world, dancing with our fingers across the screen to connect with others, we have entered a time in which we are often controlled by the tools that we once developed to help us. Challenging how we understand and see our reality, we have developed a symbiotic relationship with screens as a window to our posthuman reality, in which the tool has become an extension of the body and mind. 

Evidence in Motion: A clean slate, investigates this fragile relationship by translating it into movement, performance and speculation to explore the positive and negative implications of this. Allowing the gap that is left between the body and the screen to become tangible, its gaze mesmerizes us and the intricate movements of our fingers become a sonic movement.

Alesya Dobysh and Max Frimout

Alesya Dobysh (Moscow, 1989) is a dancer and choreographer with a background in House Dance and Max Frimout (Nuenen, 1999) is a musician with a focus on generative and spatial composition. In “Motus Sonus (working title)” Alesya and Max join forces for an interdisciplinary research on the musicality of the movement and physicality of the sound.  Based on their own fascination, they are developing a joint practice in which the exchange between dance, music and technology becomes one process. Alesya and Max create a circular dialogue between mover and musician: a sound-generating process is controlled by physical movement and vice versa.

Joost Koster

Amsterdam based artist Joost Koster explores how digital technologies and media shape content and platforms. Through tools like phone cameras, Instagram, and Zoom, Koster focuses on how these technologies reshape our bodies, personal memories, and emotions, delving into the profound impact they have on our lived experiences. Beyond concerns like fake news and biased algorithms, his work highlights the subtle yet significant transformations brought about by constant digital presence on our individual experience.

In a series of performances Joost Koster delves into the negotiation and navigation of the human body with interface technology. Technology like smartwatches, smartphones, and smart glasses are intentionally designed to seamlessly merge with our beings and extract valuable information from us. Over millennia, the physical body has remained relatively unchanged, yet it has a great adaptability and responsiveness to its surroundings. With this line of work Koster researches the gap that is left between the body and the screen, and how this influences the way we relate to our own bodies.

Yannik Güldner 

 Yannik Güldner is an independent curator and programmer based in The Hague, investigating the intersections of contemporary and popular culture. Aiming to question structures of power and society at large through the eyes of upcoming and renewed artists within their multidisciplinary practices. He is interested in creating narratives across the borders of disciplines that interlink art, science and academia. By facilitating spaces that mediate between audience and artist through exchange and collective learning, he aims to contribute to the understanding of our entangled environments. 

Evidence in Motion #6 is presented by iii with financial support from Creative Industries Fund NL and The Municipality of The Hague.