Within the framework of the ordinary seminars that the SARX Research Group organises on the Anthropology of Corporeality, Dr Daniel Ariza Gómez, a Professor from the University of Caldas (Columbia) gave a seminar entitled "Digital Footprint. Digital Performance as a Profanation of the Prison Mechanism".
Professor Ariza presented his "Digital Footprint" project during this session. The project consists of a digital performance by inmates of a juvenile prison in Columbia. The project "allows a population who have been denied their freedom to take part in a stage creation in their place of confinement due to the power they have obtained through the use of new technologies" says Ariza.
According to Ariza, this project aims to achieve "a convergence between the physical body and the digital body, through the use of different forms of expression such as theatre, performance, installations and video/dance. It aims to create a tension between and in a certain way question the systems of control and surveillance that we have created and which do not fulfil the regenerative function which we have supposedly attributed to them".
SARX is a Research Group on the Anthropology of Corporeality housed within the Faculty of Humanities at UIC Barcelona. The main aim of this group is to tackle the multiple dimensions of human corporeality from humanistic, scientific and artistic points of view.
