Moris Mick Boyd

Morris Mick Boyd is a senior thesis performance and part of an ongoing research project into networks, systems, and the concept of a global mind. It’s informed by the writings of Gregory and Mary Catherine Bateson, Luciana Parisi, Douglas Adams, Giorgio Agamben, Gilles Deleuze, and many more. Its main focus was how people organize, connect, and perceive information through what the Bateson’s have termed “mentalities”. While it went through many stages, the resulting duet was developed under the premise that choreographing is an act of mind building rather than sequencing steps. While it uses set phrase material, it also contains a “confusion score” where set phrase material is mutated by shifts in the performers memory to create new connections between the movement nodes. Accompanying this work is a manifesto that lists a series of landmark ideas that were generated in through this work.