yaGrid by Irini Kalaitzidi

Yet another grid. One more digital lattice of windows in the cloud, somewhere in-between Zoom, Jitsi, and Google Meet. “yaGrid” was created to host a speculative dance coming-together of human and non-human participants. Is there room in your diary for one more video conference call?

Irini Kalaitzidi is herself inside the grid. She verbally guides the participants through a movement improvisation, in a tone that borders on the meditative. The emerging ecosystem of dancing beings is left to exist inside a chronological and spatial continuum, one with no beginning and no end, no polar extremes, and no layers. What does exist is horizontal and elastic, slightly absurd and somewhat familiar. The viewer is present, themselves set inside a window. These stick figure interactions seek to trigger greater sensitivity and less fear towards all that is non-human – be it artificial intelligence, or a gardenia plant, or a shoe.