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Loitering Theatre

Dawn of the Truth Wizards

Vidéo | hdv | couleur | 15:18 | Irlande | 2014

A Guided Meditation on the Machines was our precursor to the ‘Wisdom 2.0’ event held at the Dublin European Headquarters of Google in Autumn 2014. Wisdom 2.0 is the premiere event for the promotion of corporate mindfulness. Welcome to the ghost realms of Buddhism-lite. ‘Be Here Now’ and ignore the past. ‘Be Here Now’ and never see your future. Every version of Empire needs a belief system to validate their rule. 
 From our rooftop vantage point we are guided on a meditation to help us spiritually contextualize the presence of the `stateless giants`: Google, Facebook, Twitter and more in our small Dublin town on the edges of Europe. We join together in meditation to trace the movement by these corporations of vast amounts of information and unseen capital through our bodies and
across the skies around us: 
 Feel the flow of data above the skies now. Karmic surge. 
Feel the search requests of one billion people pass overhead, as they filter into the Dublin gateway of knowledge. Be present with it now - the weight around your body of the whole world`s questioning 

A moving paper fantasy. Let the Sunshine in. Breathe. Meditate. Search inside yourself.

Caroline Campbell and Nina McGowan have been working since 2012 under the name of Loitering Theatre (which is also the name of their first work). Loitering Theatre have a broad base of research interests that reflect the interdisciplinary nature of their backgrounds in law, tech, landscape architecture, sculpture and film. Some principal current themes of their work are: network cultures, strange architectures, notions of the permitted, and sci-fi futures made real. Current projects seek to make the intangible of networks appear before the eye - a reversal of hypermodernity - where immaterial objects are given concrete value once more, but a value of their choosing. Along the way they examine notions of the private and public; and that which is permitted and assigned value by constructs of taste or the embedded systems, legal or otherwise, of networked capital. Loitering Theatre use Ireland`s unique position as a centre for cognitive capitalism as a springboard for critique of its emergent platforms. Their work has received mention in the New York Times, Vice Magazine, Rolling Stone, Wired Magazine and featured widely across Irish media on and offline. It has been given coverage by Anonymous and been the subject of censorship by the Irish police