Superradiance is a multiscreen video and sound installation, film and performance by Memo Akten and Katie Peyton Hofstadter exploring embodiment, technology, and planetary consciousness. It invites the viewer to extend their bodily perception beyond the skin and into the living environment. The work combines poetry, dance, and insights from neuroscience, woven together with code, simulations, and generative AI to evoke a visceral, intimate connection to the living planet.


Chapter 1 - Embodied Simulation meditates on the idea of the 'body' and the 'self' as a transient assembly of cells, micro-organisms, and cosmic matter, temporarily organized to give rise to what we perceive as a body and a self. Framing dance as an ancient biotechnology—a primal, unifying act that connects individuals to each other and to the living world—the piece leverages the cognitive phenomena of embodied simulation to reflect on bodies as sites of exchange and transformation, and embrace the paradox of feeling like an individual, intelligent being, while being composed of trillions of other living, intelligent beings.


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