Alina Trionow

MANIFESTO NO. 4 FORWARD: NOTE TO THE READER: In the collapse of certain ‘established’ structures, Sensorium (We) find an opening for rebirth and realization. Events and suffering create openings, happenings into realization, in order to discover what we are, what we are not, and who we are beyond the ego, and move beyond where we are now. “There’s a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” Leonard Cohen Sensorium is a crack in the societal structure, in the structure of our own egos. Sensorium created an opening through which light shines in. (We) are awakening now, by choice. 1. OUT OF HEAD LOGIC AND INTO EMBODIED PRACTICE/ SPIRITUAL BEING Sensorium (We), move out of logic into abstracted meaning; (We) move beyond rational human experience into poetry. ART/LIFE/POETRY Sensorium (We), believe life is only poetry, art is only poetry, and they become one. 1. NON-HIERARCHY: MATERIALS Sensorium (We), maintain that if life and art are the same, so are materials, in their non-dualistic and non- hierarchical natures. A human arm, is the same as milk, is the same as a canvas. A human arm is the same as human genitals, and a human face, etc. Each material is treated with respect and conscious attention. 2. ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS Sensorium (We), create through performance, an opening for chaos to enter a state of liminality, in order to reset ourselves and find resonance. 3. BEING HERE NOW THE CLAUSE OF RADICAL PRESENCE RADICAL PRESENCE: WHAT IS RADICAL PRESENCE? Radical Presence is attuning to the practice of being here and now, surrendering totally in acceptance to what is here and now. 4. USE OF IMPROVISATION/ INSTINCT Sensorium (We), use improvisation and instinct as tools for performance and life-making. Openings provide themselves to us or are created by us, through engagement with Radical Presence, the act of being here now. 5. BOUNDARY CROSSING Sensorium (We), actively explore(s) boundary crossing through art-life partitions going outside social norms into radicality. We explore shifting perceptions, facing fears and moving reality. 6. IDENTITY FUSION/ COMMUNITY/ AUTONOMY Sensorium (We), work(s) with identity fusion to create collective non-hierarchical bodies with common stances, in which the community is valued over individual comfort, and all individuals have equitable autonomy and decision-making power. 7. INFORMATION NOT JUDGEMENT/ ART-LIFE PARTITIONS Sensorium (We), aim(s) to perceive all input as information and not as a value judgement. Sensorium (We), experience life and art as equal, interconnected and with a fluid permeable skin. (We) value pleasant situations with equal weight and importance as painful ones. (We) have an anti-hierarchical approach to a spectrum of emotions, sensations, and experiences. 8. NUDITY Sensorium (We), explore(s) nudity, as a way to deconstruct societal rules, and liberate natural bodies. 9. ON LANGUAGE Sensorium (We), maintain that language is a ‘sin,’ and a service. Language can be simply sound material and can be deconstructed as an associative sensory tool. 10. POST-ACTIONISM/ CONTEXTUALISATION Sensorium (We), come out of an Actionist, Happening and Fluxus driven context, as well as its lingering social and political backgrounds. (We) engage actively in what could be considered Post-Actionism, or the third wave of avant- garde. 11. OTHER THAN HUMAN STRUCTURES Sensorium (We), aim to move towards non-human forms and take inspiration from ecosystems, and structures present in mycelium and rhizoids. 12. WE CANNOT LIVE, WE CANNOT CHANGE, IF WE DO NOT ACCEPT Sensorium (We), détournons civilization as an oppressive rule or structure and aim to ‘return or create’ a natural existence together. *SENSORIUM ELABORATES ON RESEARCH METHODS OF ITS MEMBERS ON A CONTINUAL BASIS. SENSORIUM ENCOMPASSES THE ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS RESEARCH, BODY MANIPULATION RESEARCH, AND SYNESTHETIC EXPERIENTIAL RESEARCH THROUGH SOUND, TASTE, TOUCH, SMELL AND VISION OF THEATRE OF THE SENSORIAL.

MANIFESTO NO. 3 SENSORIUM DEVELOPS THE RESEARCH METHODS OF ITS MEMBERS ON AN ONGOING BASIS. SENSORIUM INCLUDES THE RESEARCH ON ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS, RESEARCH ON THE MANIPULATION OF THE BODY AND THE SYNETHESTIC EXPERIENTIAL RESEARCH THROUGH SOUND, TASTE, TOUCH, SMELL AND VISION OF THE SENSORIAL THEATRE. In the collapse of certain "pre-established" structures, the Sensorium (Us) seeks an opening towards rebirth and fulfillment. On vision, smell and sound: it is rare to find an eye so powerful, so meticulous and so crystalline as to observe the color of a melody; and there are those who have spent their entire lives traveling to distant places, hoping to meet someone who possessed the quality of knowing how to listen. What sound did that sensation have? What perfume was it, to have inebriated me so much, warming my blood? Events and sufferings create openings, events in the execution, aimed at discovering what we are, what we are not and going beyond ego. We must ask you, we pray and implore you to be sincere. In every circumstance and occasion that presents itself from now and on, in every proposal and question that will be put forward to you, in every danger and in every victory. In every moment from now on, there will be no room for moralisms and ideologies. It is not a false and attractive judgment that can save you, no more than a sad and cruel lie. Laugh like crazy, in the moment you want to. Cry until your eyes hurt. Scream until you lose your voice, if you feel the anger exploding in your chest and pushing to come out. Close your eyes and dream, until you are sated. "There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." said Leonard Cohen Sensorium is a crack in the social structure, in the construct of our own egos. Sensorium opens a chink through which light can shine. There is such a high universe of senses, where it's possible to tell tales through sighs. Therefore, (We) are awakening now, by choice. We take note of the laws that govern society and pay them a vision made of wonders, we erect palaces and towers and castles on dreams and fears, we travel on the notes of a song played by a star's orchestra. We play with raindrops and with the wind, with flowers and with fire, with smiles and with tears. 1. OUT OF LOGIC, INTO EMBODIED PRACTICE AND SPIRITUAL BEING. Sensorium will exit logic forward abstract meaning; (We) go beyond rational experience into poetry. Because it wouldn't be a mistake, if anyone wants to ask the question, to suppose the existence of incredible events. Events that, perhaps, escape the evidence. Nevertheless, the attention required from you in perceiving absurd manifestations of creation, as well as the eccentric nature of case, as well as a miracle hidden behind the most usual functionings of dawn and dusk, is not easy to apply even for the most meticulous and smarter minds on the planet. 2. ART: LIFE: POETRY. BREAKING BOUNDARIES. We believe that life is only poetry, Art is only poetry, and they become one. We believe in the decostruction of colors and shapes and in the introduction of new harmonies, sperimentations and perspectives. There will be neither good or bad emotions, nor emotions to be ashamed of or to repress, and there will be no one telling you what ethics you will be required to observe. It will be lecit for us to be amazed in front of a mirror, perceiving what, deeply in the reflection, calls us to discover mysteries and richnesses. Sensorium actively explores the crossing of boundaries between Art and life, moving towards radicality. We explore mutable perceptions, facing fears and shifting reality. We wear the mask of Pan, as the essence of wild power and vital, primordial and uncontrollable force. As an asomatic mask because it portrays, within its absence, what is not representable and what is not given to represent. 3. ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS. Through performance, we create an opening for chaos to enter inside a state of liminality, to reset ourselves and find resonance. We merge the dreamlike and the corporeal in the embrace of Saturnalia, offering ourselves in sacrifice, emerging from the enchantment to reach ecstasy. First of all, we must focus our attention on senses. "How can man find pleasure in the absurd? In fact, to the extent that people laugh in the world, this happens; indeed, one can say that almost wherever there is happiness, there is the pleasure of the absurd." said Friedrich Nietzsche. Explain it with horrifying and frightening visions; hidden in the terror, resounds a melody of dull notes, the sweetest and most thunderous that can be heard. There are apocalyptic landscapes where the death, the nature, a mother and a machine reign supreme. Its gears are lubricated by blood, its pistons push crowds of men and women towards unjustifiable choices and in its valves flow rivers of words and thoughts that covet to be written, but instead they drain into the deep darkness of a sewer. This reality is tyrannical, devoid of any color, it seizes every dignity and vitality. 4. NON-HIERARCHY OF MATERIALS. We maintain that if life and Art are the same thing, the same goes for expirience materials, in its multisensory and non-hierarchical nature. A human arm is the same thing as milk, it is the same thing as a canvas. A human arm is the same thing as human genitals and a human face. In the synaesthetics of art, a melody becomes tactile, a light is felt from its scent, pain echoes in the sound of our voice. All these participations return to be evoked and to evoke in a textual, visual, material and gestural level. Each material is treated with awareness, highlighting the systems in which the human body interacts with material objects and offering an analytical lens through which we reflect on how, depending on the sense involved, the properties and bodily characteristics of objects can induce interaction, with all the respect and attention that is due to them. 5. STRUCTURES OTHER THAN HUMAN. We, Sensorium, aim to move towards non-human forms. We imitate the ecosystems and structures present in the mycelium and the rhizoids. In action, we become an organism. Each offers the opening, triggers an endocrine process with its ligands, releases its own energies and emotions, aware that others will be able to receive and grasp them. Our touch raises synaptic bridges towards others. We express ourselves in a paracrine and autocrine way and by reaching each other in the entanglement, in catharsis, we explode in the Magnificent Entropy. We observe the movement of the stars to reproduce them. From the Magnificent Entropy of chaotic processes, we gravitate towards meaning, we forge the signifier. We listen to the synapses in the weaving of the planet to transcribe them. We perform the macabre danse on the beat of its pulsating core. 6. BEING HERE NOW: THE CLAUSE OF RADICAL PRESENCE THROUGH IMPROVISATION AND INSTINCT. Sensorium uses improvisation and instinct as tools for performance and creation in life. From Chaos to form, openings are offered to us or created by us, through engagement with Radical Presence. What is Radical Presence? This is attuned to the practice of being here and now, surrendering totally in acceptance of what is here and now. The act of being here and now. Relax your nerves, now. If you hide the anger, let it flow. Define pleasure. Do it with passionate words, tell what the taste of flesh and the smell of sex are. 7. ON NUDITY AND LANGUAGE. We explore movement and nudity, as a way to deconstruct social rules and liberate natural bodies. That the body is nothing but the emulation of the union of cosmic and ancestral principles, that it is celebrated and not concealed. We also sustain that morphological language is a sinful act, a fad and a service. That language can be sound material and can be deconstructed as an associative sensory tool. So that the body becomes language and language resonates in the body, elevating the word to the union of all its meanings and its experiential load. Many bodies and many languages, as notes of the same score, variations of the theme of a harmonious and indivisible song. 8. NON-JUDGEMENT, ART-LIFE PARTITIONS AND THE FUSION OF IDENTITY: COMMUNITY AND AUTONOMY. Sensorium works with the fusion of identity to create collective bodies without hierarchy and with common positions, in which the community is valued more than individual comfort and all individuals have equal autonomy and decision-making power. We aim to perceive all impulses as revelations and without prejudice. Sensorium, we experience life and Art as equals, interconnected and with a fluid and permeable skin. We value pleasant situations and painful ones, with the same weight and importance. We have an anti-hierarchical approach to the spectrum of emotions, sensations and experiences. 9. POST-ACTIONISM: CONTEXTUALIZATION. Sensorium, we come from a context spearheaded by Wiener Aktionismus, Happening and Fluxus, as well as from their persistent social and political backgrounds. We are actively engaged in what could be considered Post-Actionism, or third wave of avant- garde. We adhere to a Dadaist vision of reality, marked by encounter and we're determined to paint ideal forms, of dissent, in existence. The latters, perhaps to provoke or perhaps to make reflections on vital, political, social issues. Inside and outside conventional forms of artistic expression. We are awared that Art releases a manifestation of the spirit and by virtue of this it cannot be considered not a political act, rather a human act. 10. WE CANNOT LIVE, WE CANNOT CHANGE, IF WE DON'T ACCEPT. Sensorium diverges from civilization as a rule or a structure and aims to return to create a natural existence together. An understandable reaction, no doubt, would be to look away. And yet, we dare to exasperate this fragile intuition. We push hope to the rebellion, to the point of shaping new rules for the world, and so an idea takes form. An innocent whim of the mind, for which we would feel pity. It would not be complicated, it would be understandable, to believe it an appearance. A tragic creature. Let us dare again. Let us gather the creature, resist the primal impulse to crush it into oblivion, guard it jealously. Let us cuddle and nourish it. Let us warm it in our laps. Let us admire its enchantment – as it grows, mutating, cumbersome and acrobatics images will appear. It will arise changed, an idea of great value. The monster of ecstasy. It is not wise to try to think of it in terms of good or evil. We will discover, weighing its potential, that it travels and holds on a border, perfectly at ease, perfectly in balance; and if we were doubting at the point to apply human tools, we would finally notice the level of perfection it reaches. The exact proportion of its forms, the precious harmony with which it evolves, the distinct ringing it produces in the soul. Using intellect and instinct in the right measure, we will be able to hear its voice, its jolt. If we know how to employ the right grace, we will be able to grasp its surface and then its essence.

SENSORIUM MANIFESTO NO. 2 0. SENSORIUM is a social practice. SENSORIUM exists only in a process-orientated way. SENSORIUM declares events to be the central statement. The manifesto is a method. The manifesto is undogmatic. 1. TRANSGRESSION We pursue an active principle. Activity is the opposite of apathy. The being is active in its principle. Activity is permanent movement. It works through the process. The active principle is amoral. It transgresses. It gives birth to itself through destruction. It understands everything that exists as information, not as judgement. SENSORIUM is the framework for transgression. 2. REWILDING Our subject is the entire spectrum of sensation. The treatment is performative. By transgressing one’s own and social boundaries the relationship between all emotions is horizontal. Our occasion is the reorganization of our physical condition, of our mental attitude, of our social existence. SENSORIUM is the withdrawal from the intervention in sensation through judgement. 3. CHAOS Transgression opens an empty space. Total chaos rains in it. Totality doesn’t know the second. It’s a state outside of time. Chaos is a shape-shifter. It reveals itself ambivalently. In the simultaneity of creation and destruction it has not yet enacted a law. We follow chaos through Performance without knowing where it leads. SENSORIUM is the revitalization of chaos. 4. IMPROVISATION/ INSTINCT We untie the instinct through improvisation. We cultivate spontaneity and freedom. During improvisation, the real experience appears. Poetry and life merge into synchronicity. Instinct leads the way through chaos. 5. ART AND LIFE The being is poetic in its essence and therefore significant and meaningless at the same time. Poetry is the highest form of freedom. So art and life mean the same thing. Performance happens in the active moment. The play always happens and never happens. 6. BODY The body is unbounded. The body is nameless. The body is a material. Tantamount with rain, time, wind, sun and sand. We understand it as a sensual medium for exploration of the self. Through performative action, we transport it into chaos. To where meaning has not been assigned. 7. MATERIAL Everything that exists is material. People, matter, rain, time, wind, sun and sand. Every material has an equal status. It acts. It mediates and communicates. It appears. Its appearance contains information. Without symbolism, it speaks metaphysically and associatively. Its very existence is an action. 8. LANGUAGE Language is the mediation of information. Language is an expression. It begins non-verbally. We speak through silence. Silence speaks to us. Through performative action we forget all words and begin to speak. 9. PUBLIC The audience feels through participation. Sensation creates a form. Every form contains information through its expression. Everything that conveys information acts through its effect. The public is part of a landscape. 10. COMMUNALITY We delimit ourselves through performative practice. Collective transgression let us temporally become one. This unity is non-hierarchical. We develop a sense for horizontal communality. We treat care and challenge as a pair. 11. TIME AND SPACE A space is formed by what it contains. Content is related to the present. The present is an accumulation of temporality. Every person, every object, every material is content. Their simultaneity is the action. Every action is therefore site-specific. No action is repeatable.

SENSORIUM MANIFESTO NO. 1 We are not trying to change the world, we are changing ourselves. We are breaking out of our own apathy Cultivating synchronicity and spontaneity. We are changing ourselves Through perforative action. Through care but not through tenderness. Through a non-hierarchical approach of human experience. Through the acceptance of the total spectrum of human emotion. We are not developing an ideology, but a practice. We are developing a practice of performance of participatory art of Actionism That does not coerce the public to act but that opens up spaces for their expressions. We are developing a practice that bases itself on consensual boundary crossing. We are developing a practice so as to never oppress ourselves again With cultural boundaries with social norms with family expectations. We are developing a practice that reframes our personal boundaries So they become collective ones. So they define our experiences rather than limiting them. So they root us in the present rather than maintain us in fear. We are exploring methodologies that lead to identity fusion That lead to a real sense of community To a common stance rather than to an individual ease To a form of collaboration that ensure autonomous vertical action. We are becoming poetry We are exploring the surreal rather than describing the real. We are putting everything flat on the table So the flowers, the milk, the stars, death and freedom All have the same value as any other materials. We are creating a way of being human through the practice of life partitions. Through the paths of Control, Abandon and Chaos. We are not developing projects, we are opening up worlds. We are experiencing accidents as informations rather than as valors. We are seeking life, not validation. We are defining ourselves as materials no lesser nor greater than gold, clay or tears. We are undergoing multi-sensorial approaches to what it means to be human Through the practice of physico-spiritual scores. We are using body work as a way to conjure chaos. We are existing in a polyglot community Exploring the interstices amongst languages and amongst cultures. We are going away from word-based language We dwell around graphical, physical, instinctive, symbolic means of communication. We are becoming moss. We are spreading like fungi into the soil Into the social behaviors and the common imaginaries. We are dwelling upon non-human ways to exist as social beings. We are rejecting civilisation as a tool of oppression So we can emancipate our human interactions So we can base them on self-organised local senses. We are denying institutions the right to hoard our collective power. We are embracing Chaos. We are embracing Chaos as a way out of the Anthropocene. We are nurturing impermanency as the fundamental tone of reality. We are following paths without knowing where they lead. We are sublimating our condition. We are the blinds roaming through the light. We are the intoxicated running through the woods. We are showing up naked at the end of the world. We are seeking radical change. In our Physical states. In our Psychical states. In our Social existences. We are reconnecting to our instincts. We are dwelling in the full-spectrum of human possibilities. We are writing an ode to spontaneity. We are formulating Cosmogonies We are becoming Myths.