Scomodo

SCOMODO development August and September 2022 - short Promo from showings at Vitalstatistix - Adelaide South Australia.
Scomodo is a developing creative collaboration between dance performers Matt Shilcock and Cinzia Schincariol. These promotional excerpts were presented in Port Adelaide in 2022. The project was funded by Arts SA with in kind support from Australian Dance Theatre and Vitalstatistix. Creative collaborators also included: Sascha Budimski (sound design), Mark Oakley (light design), Silvana Angelakis (costume and sculpture design), Dianne Reid (videography and mentoring), and Kate Sherman (dramaturgy support).

ADHOCRACY 2020 - on line residency

Performance/Installation
Collaboration between Matt Shilcock and Cinzia Schincariol

SCOMODO. A durational, performance work. Two dance artists obsessively deconstruct and reconstruct a wheelchair as an opportunity to explore the boundaries between humans and their machines.

SCOMODO, Italian for uncomfortable, started as our response to a time of struggles with our bodies, injuries, mental health and social expectations. Initially we explored questions such as: ‘Where do I place myself? How do I see my reality? How can I interact with it so that I can transform it?’ But a recent revisitation of The Cyborg Manifesto by Donna Haraway has brought up new questions, a new energy. The deconstruction and reconstruction of the wheelchair is a perfect opportunity to explore the relationship between humans and machines. Haraways brings us closer to where humans and machines meet, where their border becomes ever so blurry, and where it is possible to dismantle binary paradigm and unrealistic expectations of unity.

This feels so relevant to us:

Cinzia: “Matt, I still remember the first time I pushed a young girl in a wheelchair. I witnessed myself wondering: ‘Who am I pushing? The wheelchair? The person? Both?’ I am not talking about theories and conceptual disability models here... I am really referring to the felt bodily experience of touching the wheelchair ... puzzled... trying to figure out where one end and the other begins” Matt: “oh....this is why I don’t have push handles on my wheelchair.”
We hugged.

SCOMODO timeline:

- Ausdance Choreolab, Adelaide 2014 (first development + showing)

- Little Con, Melbourne 2015 - Performance

- Dance Hub, Adelaide 2018 - (second development + showing)

- Adhocracy 2020
https://vitalstatistix.com.au/projects/adhocracy-2020/

- Final development planned for December 2020 - Postponed - Final Development by June 2022 (funded by ArtsSa - RLDDA)

This project was born and continue to be developed in the land of the Kaurna people.

I would like to acknowledge the First Nations peoples of Australia as the traditional owners of the land.
I respect and acknowledge their spiritual connection as the custodians of their land and that their cultural heritage beliefs are still important for the living people of today. I pay respect to elders, past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.