Beginningless Mind (rivers, rhythms, rituals)
The (rivers, rhythms, rituals) edition of Beginningless Mind activates embodied knowledge through movement, in an ongoing collaboration with Wikipedia, search engines, 33EMYBW and J.G. Biberkopf (Gediminas Zygus) on music, Jayson Haebich on custom software development, and an additional collaboration on choreography with Franka Marlene Foth.
In search of a sense of belonging through a shared reality, Beginningless Mind probes collective worldmaking. The work voices Wikipedia as a knowledge commons and maps it onto web searches using Natural Language Processing, a subfield of Artificial Intelligence. The optimised search engine results produced by algorithms which index knowledge, are translated into a kinaesthetic vernacular, in a gesture where the verbal collapses meaning onto movement.
To transcend the limitations of language, Beginningless Mind observes the mind as embodied intelligence with porous boundaries. A view of the body as a collective assemblage of social, material and unknowable multitudes, queers the nature-culture divide. Starting where we are, we can begin to refine our consciousness towards universal kinship.
Score: 33EMYBW and J.G. Biberkopf (Gediminas Zygus)
Custom built software/ Natural Language Processing: Jayson Haebich
Voice: Natasha Kerry
Choreography: Franka Marlene Foth with FMKF collective
Dancers: Janan Laubscher, Camille Jackson, Steph B. Quinci, Dana Pajarillaga, Myriel Welling
Wardrobe: Ottolinger
Set: Studio Lilo
Beginningless Mind was originally commissioned by Abandon Normal Devices, University of Salford Art Collection and Somerset House Studios. Produced by Abandon Normal Devices for AND Festival 2021 and supported using public funding by Arts Council England.
Premiered at AND Festival 2021 with an introduction from Lucia Pietroiusti, curator of General Ecology at Serpentine.
Exhibited at The London Open 2022 at The Whitechapel Gallery (London) and Boundless Bodyminds at Equrna Gallery/ SONICA (Ljubljana) 2021.
Copyright © 2025 Marija Bozinovska Jones
