You will not be
A Performance and Installation part of
the Dutch Pavilion at the
XXII. Triennale Di Milano 2019

As the pace of our time becomes further assimilated into the 24/7-rhythm of the digital economy, a dizzying array of apps and gadgets are designed to optimise our intimate self according to the demands of the market. From therapeutic tools for sleep to attention- and anxiety-management, design is continuously mobilised to influence our day-to-day experience.

You will not be explores the destructive as well as the restorative capacities of these technologies, on the one hand, through the lens of its smooth interfaces and, on the other, the way these sculpt the body and its language today.

You will not be is a performance and digital installation developed from the design research project A Glossary of Darkness with mentors Angela Rui and Anastasia Kubrak resulting in the participation of the 1st Year Social Design Master students in the Dutch Pavilion at the XXII. Triennale di Milano, March–September 2019 and exhibition I See That I See What You Don’t See at Het Niewe Instituut, Rotterdam, October–December, 2019.

You will not be was developed and performed by the students Alice Bardou, Charly Blödel, Bianca Carague, Roberta Di Cosmo, Coline Declef, Charlelie Flamant, Giulio Fuzzi, Jan-Micha Gamer, Anna Klara Oxholm Iversen, Liana Kuyumcuyan, Coltrane Mcdowell, Matilde Patuelli, Victoria Plasteig, Marta Rioz Piza,  Samein Shamsher and Alina Słup.As part of the participating student group, Charly Blödel took a representative role in the development of the concept, performance script, overall project management and contributed with an essay written in collaboration with Alice Bardou and Anna Klara Oxholm Iversen.

Digital installation of You will not be in the exhibition of the Dutch Pavilion at the XXII. Triennale di Milano

Digital installation of You will not be in the exhibition of the Dutch Pavilion at the XXII. Triennale di Milano

Performance of You will not be during the opening of the Dutch Pavilion at the XXII. Triennale di Milano (Photography: Daria Scagliola)

Digital installation of You will not be in the exhibition of the Dutch Pavilion at the XXII. Triennale di Milano