Polina Zioga & GSA DDS: 'Enheduanna - A Manifesto of Falling' Live Brain-Computer Cinema Performance

World premiere of the first Live Brain-Computer Cinema Performance with Anastasia Katsinavaki and Minas Borboudakis.

Polina Zioga and the Digital Design Studio (DDS) of the Glasgow School of Art present ’Enheduanna – A Manifesto of Falling’, a new innovative performance with actress Anastasia Katsinavaki, and composer Minas Borboudakis.

This international production is the result of Polina Zioga’s doctoral research on brain-computer interfaces that provide the brain with a non-muscular channel for communicating with the external world. The real-time brain-activity of a performer and the audience controls the live audio-visual projections and the atmosphere of the theatrical stage, which functions as an allegory of the social stage.

The performance explores the life and work of Enheduanna (ca. 2285-2250 B.C.E.), an Akkadian Princess, the first documented High Priestess of the deity of the Moon Nanna in the city of Ur (present-day Iraq), who is regarded as possibly the first known author and poet in the history of human civilisation, regardless of gender.

In her most known work, ‘The Exaltation of Inanna’, Enheduanna describes the political conditions under which she was removed from high office and sent into exile. She speaks about the ‘city’, power, crisis, falling, and the need for rehabilitation. Her poetry is used as a starting point for a conversation with the work of contemporary writers that investigate the notions of citizenry, personal and social illness, within the present-day international, social and political context of democracy.

The project has been realised in the GSA Digital Design Studio, in collaboration with the University of Glasgow, the University of Huddersfield, and with the support of the NEON Organization, CCA, MyndPlay and the GSA Student Association.

Performed in English, French and Greek, with English supertitles.

Please be aware of that the event will be filmed.

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