The Knot Theory Theme: The only way to bind what only seems bonded in the surface is to cut even deeper. While “The Knot Theory” analyzes the surface and below the surface sides of incidents and relations, it is affected by the mathematical theory of Koningsberg’s Seven Bridges, a surgery, absurd theater, and the probabilities that interactive technologies create. When communication webs that consist of disconnected pieces are connected in different ways can they cause variant outcomes? “The Knot Theory” is a search with body language that goes deep in a well of possibilities. This work has been developed at Absent Interfaces Lab in Tanz Quartier Wien, artist residency at L’animal a l’esquena (Spain) and rehearsals at Bilgi University (İstanbul).
About: Since the day technology settled itself on our laps, our thinking methods, perceptions, communications have been reshaped into new tunes. Rather than ignoring today’s outrageous technological advances and distancing ourselves as observers, inevitably we string along with the fast rhythm of technology. Dance, as being one of the oldest activity of arts, is currently under a reformation era that lines in parallel with technological developments. Technology no longer stands as a tool but gains a stronger role in creating ideas. Technology restructures performance art with adding different layers together while using languages of different media such as film, video art, interaction, theatre as common denominators. In this sense, with the company of technology, dance is empowering its language and reconfiguring its underlying bases. Sharing the same table with all these trends and fluctuations in the arts, “Knot Theory” is not hiding itself behind the appearance of technology, instead it allows the technology to pass through its body and invites the technology to the performance.
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