Post-Heurisatic Probe Unit : 8/8
The Common Inn – Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam
Post-Heuristic Probe Unit is the name of the first performance and collaborative project of Walter Götsch and Natalia Jordanova. It was realised in the context of The Cold Open – Live Broadcasting Tv Show project by the Dirty Art department of Sandberg Institute, held at ISO, Amsterdam in November 2018. Through instruction, announced by a prerecorded voice, they follow a series of action, mimicking the process of machine-like movements, navigating through space. Learning and adapting are performed as embodied automation. The voice is indicating eight phases of interaction, where touch, proximity and cooperation are the main tools of communication.
Post-Heuristic Probe Unit: 8/8 is a proposal for a reiteration of the performance in which each phase is staged at a different part of the space and performed individually within the duration of the whole event. It is deconstructed for the purposes of being video-documented. Hence, the audience is incapable of seeing the piece in its totality and the space of the event is used as a space of producing video documentation and thus becoming the outcome of the performance. The work as proposed is gravitating within the different environments of representation–neither physical nor digital.
Post-Heuristic Probe Unit: 8/8 is a performance that will never fully happen. Deconstructing the linear logic of presence and experience, it plays with the institutional fiction of representation and modes of dissemination. In a non-linear way, Walter Götsch and Natalia Jordanova perform eight fragments of durational performance, with big time in between and changing their location in space. The audience becomes unconscious participants in the video documentation, produced in Het Nieuwe Institute, which will be used as a tool later to construct the full performance and in order to bring it back to the digital realm.