“Feeling Down? Look Up!” is a performance project based on Smiljani\u0107\u2019s nine-month engagement with UFO-focused, spiritual society called Unarius. Founded by Ruth and Ernest Norman in 1954 in El Cajon (California), the focal point of this project lies in their practice of Past Life Therapy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By embracing Past Life Therapy and accepting the cyclicality of time, Smiljanic is approaching this practice as \u201cchoreography of becoming\u201d. She is using it as a device that, from one side, is prospectively interfering into the manifestation of the fixed identity, while at the same time, is supporting a perpetual change and redefinition of the concept the self.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Consequently Past Life Therapy practice in this project is used as a subtext to explore potentiality of trans-personal condition. Reading “trans” as state of beyond, the trans-personal is referring to an expanded view on the sense of identity that embraces wider aspects of life and Nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This new subjectivity is being practiced through the “Nomadic Motel of the Future City”, a sculptural element that Smiljani\u0107 uses in this performance as an interpretative tool of theoretical discourse that proposes a more de-fragmented, nomadic, tentacular way of thinking (i.e. Stengers, Haraway, Braidotti and Russ who are extensively writing about active desire to reinvent subjectivity as a set of mutant values).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":589,"template":"","class_list":["post-588","residencies","type-residencies","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n