#6 Dancer & choreographer David Bloom: Dance with an Alien (Spank your limits!)

«There is a certain interest in the world of having people not say NO. Me saying to you: You can say «no» at any time is a completely different thing from going into a space where you are with an actual person proposing something to you, and you actually say NO. It’s like looking at a map of a city or actually walking through the city. It‘s a matter of practice.» David Bloom, Dancer/Choreographer, Bodyworker, Filmmaker

David Bloom – Choreographer, dancer, filmmaker, bodyworker, pianist, father, fermenting mystic and expert on boundaries and desires. David is therefore also concerned with the little word «NO». Fortunately, he said «YES» to our interview request, which fitted in quite well with our desires.

He teaches his skills at the HZT Berlin, Tanzquartier Wien, Tanzfabrik Berlin, the Human Architecture Lab in St. Petersburg and K3 in Hamburg, among others. He made the first dance porn film, which premiered at the Berlin Porn Film Festival and was shown internationally.

After being our guest at the Golden Record Studios, he also choreographed the first Alien Dance in history. We could also have discussed various fermentations with him. Or analyze the digestive system. Cross-pollination being one of his interests.

But well, conversations with busy people unfortunately have their limits. Maybe next time!

The conversation took place in English and German.

Further links to topics of the dialogue
METI-Projekt (web)
The Sparks Brothers (film)

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Welcome to THE GOLDEN RECORD STUDIOS – It’s high time for a new world selfie! 45 years ago, NASA sent its «Golden Records» into the depths of space in the hope that distant intelligences would be able to get an idea of humanity this way. Back then, a small group of Americans curated an embellished selfie for the entire Earth: Photos as if with a retro filter, music between European classical music and Azerbaijani bagpipes, as well as nature sounds in poor sound quality – our as yet unknown alien friends will get a pretty weird impression of us. Fortunately, since the 1970s, not only the view of the world, but also the view out of the world has changed significantly.

In our podcast series THE GOLDEN RECORD STUDIOS, exosociologists, anthropologists and other alien artists put their heads together with us for this experiment to produce new recordings: How do we want to be remembered? How do we welcome alien intelligences? Which colonial structures do we have to say goodbye to in order to secure the existence of the human species? And is freezing after death really the smartest way to travel into the future? THE GOLDEN RECORD STUDIOS are an open invitation to listen in and think along, infused with sounds and music. On the first level, we deal with various questions arising from the Golden Records project. But you soon realise that we are dealing with very contemporary and local issues via the figure of the alien or the message to space.

Hosts: Alexandra Lauck und Lukas Matthaei
Creative Producer: Fabian Kuehlein
Music: Chris Umney

Produced by matthaei&konsorten 2023