Choreographer, video maker, and Cultural Anthropology graduate.
Since 2010, her artistic work has focused on practical and theoretical studies of perception and attention, expanding from 2014 to a reflection on body and technology, the transformation of rituals, and the emotional processing brought about by digital interaction. She has explored Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Projection mapping, and various social media platforms. In recent years, she has concentrated on VR for its potential embodiment capabilities, studying choreographic transmission techniques through VR headsets.
In 2024 her project “Embracing Places” received the Honorary Mention in CultTech x Ars Electronica Award. In 2021, her work “Peaceful Places” won the prestigious Auggie Award for Best Art in VR. Her work aims at a reflection on the conscious use of technology as an experiential and creative tool, eliminating the human/artificial dichotomy that tends to attribute negative connotations to technological tools, interpreting them instead as possible extensions of the body itself, capable of “enhancing” the experience that can be had of it.
Margherita Landi merges philosophy, science, technology, neuroscience, and dance. Her performances offer deeply emotional and revolutionary experiences, shedding light on both the positive and negative aspects of our relationship with technology. Margherita challenges the audience to discern whether the spectacle takes place externally or within themselves, pushing the boundaries of conventional experience. She brings innovative formats to life, emphasizing attentive, focused, and emotionally engaged humanity. Her work conveys a political message, shifting the focus from performance or technological skill to the realm of feelings and inclusion, where each individual can generously contribute to the beauty of their gestures.
Among her projects: “Dance for Smartphone,” “The vulnerable technology inside of us,” “Improvisation in dance as liminal space,” “The world behind us,” “P2P, new forms of absence in the digital era.” She has collaborated with artists such as Iraqi Bodies, Makiko Ito, Katie Duck, Dance Elixir, MonoCollective, Yumiko Yoshioka, Company Blu, Zoya Sardashti, Virgilio Sieni, TSKrypton, Silvia Gribaudi. Currently, she is a PhD candidate in Performance at the University of Portsmouth (UK), with her research revolving around the role of absence and invisibility in performative practice through XR (eXtended Reality) Technology.
