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Bionic Step
In this episode, our co-host Nina Davies gets into the artist’s seat, sharing her work ‘Bionic Step’, a twelve-minute fictional conversation with an academic whose research explores techno-faith, a new form of spirituality which attempts to understand human’s changing relationship with technology. In the episode Nina and Niamh discuss how this fictional dance called Bionic Step acts as a future version of the 1518 Dancing Plague in Strasbourg. Together they examine the changing functions of dance in the aftermath of TikTok and how technological advancements affect the creation and attention towards faith.
Coming from an extensive dance and performance background, Nina Davies (b. 1991, Canada) now situates her work within the Fine Arts; questioning choreography beyond its performative state. Using moving image, sound, text and fiction her practice aims to further critical discussion around dance by observing how it intersects with language and where it begins to take on commodified or material forms. Her work has been exhibited at SEAGER Gallery, London; Robota - Center for Advanced Studies, Bratislava; Museum Tijdschrift Cultuurcentrum, Brugge; and Strangelove Time Based Media Festival, London. She has performed at Lilian Baylis Studios, London; The Ailey Citigroup Theatre, NYC; and The Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver. Nina co-hosts the bi-monthly radio show called Future Artefacts alongside artist Niamh Schmidtke. Together Nina and Niamh present audio works by artists that use fiction as a way of exploring the world at present.
Image: Clara Atkinson
Artist Nina Davies
Host Niamh Schmidtke
Music Joe Moss and John Trevaskis
Producer Flo Lines
Broadcast through Radio Thamesmead
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By Future Artefacts FMIn this episode, our co-host Nina Davies gets into the artist’s seat, sharing her work ‘Bionic Step’, a twelve-minute fictional conversation with an academic whose research explores techno-faith, a new form of spirituality which attempts to understand human’s changing relationship with technology. In the episode Nina and Niamh discuss how this fictional dance called Bionic Step acts as a future version of the 1518 Dancing Plague in Strasbourg. Together they examine the changing functions of dance in the aftermath of TikTok and how technological advancements affect the creation and attention towards faith.
Coming from an extensive dance and performance background, Nina Davies (b. 1991, Canada) now situates her work within the Fine Arts; questioning choreography beyond its performative state. Using moving image, sound, text and fiction her practice aims to further critical discussion around dance by observing how it intersects with language and where it begins to take on commodified or material forms. Her work has been exhibited at SEAGER Gallery, London; Robota - Center for Advanced Studies, Bratislava; Museum Tijdschrift Cultuurcentrum, Brugge; and Strangelove Time Based Media Festival, London. She has performed at Lilian Baylis Studios, London; The Ailey Citigroup Theatre, NYC; and The Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver. Nina co-hosts the bi-monthly radio show called Future Artefacts alongside artist Niamh Schmidtke. Together Nina and Niamh present audio works by artists that use fiction as a way of exploring the world at present.
Image: Clara Atkinson
Artist Nina Davies
Host Niamh Schmidtke
Music Joe Moss and John Trevaskis
Producer Flo Lines
Broadcast through Radio Thamesmead