{"id":2385,"date":"2021-03-12T09:50:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T09:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alfabus.us\/?page_id=2385"},"modified":"2021-09-17T07:54:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T07:54:56","slug":"aliveness","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/aliveness\/","title":{"rendered":"ALIVE:ness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Exactitudes of Our Passion - Mad Kate | the Tide Official Video\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/114471724?h=4bc49f7589&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>ALIVE:ness is writing, music, live performance, conceptual art and photography that has developed around the questions of: <em>to what extent are we alive in each other\u2019s lives\u2014physically, emotionally, electronically, living or dead\u2014taking into account our contemporary context of virtual interaction, shape-shifting and polyphysical interpretations of our own identities. What does it mean to be present when the terms of our own existence are relative to how we interact physically and virtually with those most close to us?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ALIVE:ness is about queering our understanding of self in a global context in order to be more effective activists and global citizens. The work examines how our digital context creates the possibility for engendering ALIVE:ness across borders beyond the body\u2014to people with whom we have no &#8220;real&#8221; relationship. And likewise it examines the possibility for engendering ALIVE:ness across the borders within our bodies\u2014to body parts and capabiilites which appear to be absent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The music for ALIVE:ness has been written together with <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/jacopobertacco.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jacopo Bertacco aka &#8220;The Tide<\/a>&#8221; in the form of our collaboration <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/madkatethetide.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mad Kate | the Tide<\/a>. We have performed ALIVE:ness at Copenhagen International Performance Festival with Penny Arcade and at Maxim Gorki Theatre Studio R, among other places.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/alfabus.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/BOOK-front-cover-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-779 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/BOOK-front-cover-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/BOOK-front-cover-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>&#8220;Aliveness. We are caught with the strange responsibility of assessing ALIVEness. These people that claim to be alive or dead\u2014to what extent do they have real aliveness in our lives? Their picture\u2014staring out at us from the annals of the internet\u2014just as alive or just as dead? That one\u2014I know for a fact that she committed suicide but I hadn\u2019t spoken to her in years. Has her ALIVE-ness in my life changed since her death? My father\u2019s ALIVEness; has it grown weaker, since his physical death? I am not so sure. My mother\u2019s ALIVEness; is it strong? When I send a text message to my mother and she doesn\u2019t call, or an email to my mother and she doesn\u2019t reply, this makes me feel like she might be dead. After all, my father does the same thing, and he IS dead. Aren\u2019t we, alive in these times, perpetually \u201creachable\u201d? Reachable. Reachable. Reachable. Reachable. Reachable.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although I have made ALIVE:ness freely available through <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/madkate\/docs\/aliveness\" target=\"_blank\">ISSUE<\/a>, it would mean a great to deal to me and my practice if you would consider supporting independent publishing by <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/store.blurb.com\/ebooks\/450751-alive-ness\" target=\"_blank\">purchasing ALIVEness as an enhanced eBook (music embedded) or hardcover<\/a>. It includes all the prose, lyrics, and musical compositions that comprise the ALIVEness work.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"if every life were alive to us\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/155600790?h=6c0dd86306&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALIVE:ness is writing, music, live performance, conceptual art and photography that has developed around the questions of: to what extent are we alive in each other\u2019s lives\u2014physically, emotionally, electronically, living or dead\u2014taking into account our contemporary context of virtual interaction, shape-shifting and polyphysical interpretations of our own identities. 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