Amazon Dance (2021)

Nico Angiuli

Amazon Dance Studio Nico Anguili

AMAZON DANCE
Video installation / Film (2021)
Developed through EMAP at Onassis Stegi, Athens.
Amazon Dance investigates algorithmic labour through the choreography of warehouse
infrastructures and automated logistics. The project expands a research trajectory
initiated with The Human Tools (2019), a large-scale circular film installation produced
through the Italian Council programme, investigating labour, artificial intelligence, embodied knowledge and the relationship between humans and machines.

I WAS BITTEN BY A ROBOT DOG
Lecture-performance (45 min)
I Was Bitten by a Robot Dog is the latest chapter of a research trajectory that began with The Human Tools and evolved through Amazon Dance. Performed live by the artist, it combines lecture, performative actions, reconstructed gestures, excerpts from
both works, online video archives, workers' testimonies, documented canine attacks, footage of robot dogs and materials related to automation, surveillance and logistics.
These sources are assembled through bodily demonstrations and techno-macabre dances, introducing the concept of labour dollification. The lecture-performance will be presented at the Performing Space Symposium, University of the Peloponnese, Nafplio (September 2026).

A BEAUTIFUL SYMPHONY
Collective workshop by Nico Angiuli & Katerina El Raheb
Originally developed within the research initiated through Amazon Dance, A Beautiful Symphony was first presented in 2023 at Lavanderia a Vapore (Collegno, Turin) during OnLive Campus. The workshop brings together artists, workers, researchers, students
and activists to explore how algorithms organise bodies, gestures, rhythms, attention and cooperation. Through performative exercises, movement scores, discussion and collective improvisation, participants critically engage with automation and
human-machine interaction.
The format can be adapted to museums, festivals, universities and residency programmes.

Genre
mediaAVBasedPerformance
Methods
dataVisualisation
Themes
Art And Science
algorithm
Arts And Visual Culture
dance
Media And Communication
bigdata
commerce
Society And Culture
consumption
capitalism
Technology And Innovation
consumption
capitalism