22.2. Irma Optimisti + Pablo Alvez Artinprocess: Chaos, catastrophe and irrationality - Half glass empty, half glass full

Duration: 60’

Doors: 18:30

Performance: 19:00

Free entry

This performance is a dialogue between a mathematician (Irma Optimisti) and an economist (Pablo Alvez Artinprocess) who fell in love with performance art as their common language to approach complexity. They recently discovered that complexity unites their “way of being” in performance art, more than they had imagined.

FRACTAL objects have irrational dimensions. “Irrational” has a negative connotation: the ongoing destruction and obliteration of humans cannot be rational. At the same time, feeling and sensibility are not a form of rationality, so “irrational” also holds a positive meaning. Through performance art we can relate to both, and comment on both. CHAOS also carries a negative connotation: again, think about how leaders sometimes create chaos to better govern, many times at the cost of human lives and peace. But surprisingly, the ultra-sensitivity to parameters and to initial conditions can mean that we remain open and fragile, which is positive. And it is part of our common “way of being” in performance art. We are never fully in control, and we are shook by serendipity. CATASTROPHE relates to discontinuity, and we prefer to see performance art as a sequence of discrete events rather than a continuum.