s a l i e n c e n e t w o r k

Hanging on the border of in and out. The target here is attention – teasing, manipulating, entertaining, being watched and wanting to be seen. 

“s a l i e n c e  n e t w o r k” hugs you into exhaustion and overwhelms you with glimpses of memories. It is like a slow-motion surf through a distorted online realm. Familiar sounds and feelings linger in a scattered web. Information hits from multiple directions. “SN” guides you through different mood boards and images in a weirdly unsettling way. Imagination and reality are working in parallel and throwing us into constant fluster. It is an absurd space, emerging from the combination and contradiction of theatrical, raw, enervated, charged, mysterious, soft and intimate qualities. 

This network is a perceptual and dreamlike imprint on how focus is driven at these very specific times. This place helps us face the information load that is coming from the outside, giving us a moment to process and to realize what we are actually looking at.

“The salience network (SN) is a large-scale network of the human brain that is primarily composed of the anterior insula (AI) and dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC). It is involved in detecting and filtering salient stimuli, as well as in recruiting relevant functional networks. Together with its interconnected brain networks, the SN contributes to a variety of complex functions, including communication, social behavior, and self-awareness through the integration of sensory, emotional, and cognitive information. The salience network is responsible in modulating the switch between the internally directed cognition of the default mode network and the externally directed cognition of the central executive network.”

Source: Wikipedia

Júlia Vavra is a Budapest-based freelance contemporary dancer, performer and choreographer. She has studied at the Budapest Academy of Contemporary Dance and Amsterdam SNDO – School for New Dance Development, majoring in choreography. She likes to think about creations as a way of de-and reconstructing ruling structures. She reads bodies as mysterious, never fully understood, always shaping, information carriers. She trusts movement, physicality and a creation through unfolding subconscious processes that have transformative power.

She is working with contradictions and taboos and through character building, re-contextualised symbols, twisted codes, irony and humour she tries to reflect on our implicit rules, ethics, behaviours and patterns. She is interested in building complex atmospheres and dramaturgy with the equivalent play of movement, lights, visuals and sound/music.

In her previous work “Artists like me” she was poking the local and global contexts and mechanism of her profession through a brutally honest satire. In “Cold Blooded Mare , A hidegvérű kanca”, she was reflecting on and working around the Hungarian governments’ terrifying appropriation of Hungarian culture in an image of a female horse. “s a l i e n c e   n e t w o r k” is a continuation of her latest piece “d e f a u l t  m o d e  n e t w o r k” which focused on the state of daydreaming.

This work was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union.