2013. Black Magic | White Magic is a dance and sound performance about intimate, ritualised and creative relations to personal computer and operating systems. A sound artist and two shamanic dancer play with an ensemble of objects relating to Linux and a Macintosh environments. They wish to demonstrate their comprehension and masteristation of their tools. Slowly they face the contemplative, absurd or irreducible dimensions of those universes and materiality. The piece poses a poetic, ironical and humorous glance on daily gestures, aesthetic, rituals, power and fragility which are at stake in these complex relationships. By doing so, it suggests to re-enchant computer mediated modus operandi.

The project was initiated and directed by Anne Goldenberg, in collaboration with Margaret Westby and Maya Richman.

A performance iteration took place as part of Lab Phenomena on May 5th, 2013 @ Casa del populo, 4873, boulevard Saint-Laurent, Montréal. 

For more information, please visit: 
http://lerse.net/black-magic-white-magic/