We live in a mediatized world of wild conspiracy theories, impending ecological crises, pernicious narrations, where ironic + nihilistic viral #influenza pictures are concurrently cropping up on innumerable devices. A toxic cloud of digital images is drifting from the monitors in parallel to the degradation of the physical environment.
?How does pixelated information get caught in the network of an organic body? What kind of stage (a)effects does a work generate with incompatible Internet content? What in the web of images is actually t r U E?
In response to the oculocentric organisation of the world, the hybrid stage production adds materiality to pasty digital images and processes them ¯\_( physically )_/¯. It combines movement, video, the production with objects and sound, translating *through irony* the logic of the Internet into a physical space……………… The relationship between the body and images spreads open the virtual spaces of intermediacy; /between the organic /imaginary and digital /among memetic trash /between the atmosphere /affect and sensation //at the intersection of experience, apparition, premonition, and fact. Between the past, the manifold presents and – not virtual, but tangible – > future.
Artistic Director, Stage Director & Choreographer: Jan Rozman
Performed by: Peter Frankl and Jan Rozman
Set design: Dan Pikalo
Video: Miha Možina
Music: Blaž Gracar
Graphic design: Sara Bezovšek
Costume design: Kiss the Future
Lighting design and Technical Director: Janko Oven
Dramaturg: Maša Radi Buh
Assistant Director and stage assistance: Bor Ravbar
Executive Producers: Sabrina Železnik, Luka T. Zagoričnik
Technical assistance: Luka Prinčič, Damjan Delak
Photo documentation: Marijo Župan
Duration: 60 minutes
Jan Rozman (1991) is a dancer, performer and improviser working between Ljubljana and Berlin. He is active in the independent dance scene, where he collaborates with established dancers and choreographers and develops his own work, which is characterised by the interplay of different elements (dance, theatre, scenography, music) and humour. His artistic practice deals with an expanded notion of corporeality, material semiotics, textures, gaps, mistakes and confusion, ecology, imagination, (science) fiction and humour. His work focuses on the exploration and articulation of relevant performance expressions for the post-internet/anthropocene era.