Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir and Susan Kozel: CATALYSTS – Somatic Resonance

MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre produces, in collaboration with Zodiak – Center for New Dance, an exhibition by Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir and Susan Kozel. The exhibition is a part of Zodiak’s international Side Step Festival. CATALYSTS – Somatic Resonance is an installation exhibition of somatic states from the performance work of Icelandic choreographer Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir, consisting of 14 photographs. The exhibition is a choreography of mixed reality technologies, kinaesthetic algorithms, affects, archival material, and live bodies. This work is created by an interdisciplinary team of artists and researchers and is an intervention in the tensions and potential of current digital cultures. It participates in ongoing discussions around the expanded choreographies of interconnectivity of mediated bodies, healing, feminism, notions of energetic citizenship, AI and the pathology of the wider social-political body within our bodies. Visitors to the exhibition carry the states from this choreographic exhibition outwards, like ripples in a collective somatic field.