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24/07/2021
Partika-Saal
Robert Schumann Hochschule
Düsseldorf,
Germany

Overview

A transmedial performance and interactive installation exploring identity and the pervasive alienation of humans in the digital era. The work transforms the audience into active participants, where entering as an individual gradually becomes leaving as a social being.

More than a performance, it functions as a laboratory for social interaction, investigating how people connect across age, gender, and background. Through immersive audiovisual environments, sound, light, and space become instruments for dialogue, enabling participants to co-create a shared narrative of solidarity. Without interaction, the space remains silent-emphasizing the crucial role of human engagement.

The project unfolds in three interconnected parts:

I. Interaction
An interactive installation where communication is the only way to activate the space. Participants must engage with strangers in order to generate sound, transforming social interaction into a necessary condition for perception. The audience becomes both performer and medium, dissolving passivity and confronting isolation.

II. Revelation
A live audiovisual performance combining musicians with a critical film that reflects on the paradoxes of contemporary life. The relationship between sound and image is dynamic and unstable-music responds to, disrupts, and reinterprets the visual narrative, exposing tensions between connection and alienation, reality and constructed experience.

III. Mutation
A performative convergence of classical, jazz, electronic musicians, and multimedia artists from the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf and the Institute for Music and Media. Through improvisation and real-time dialogue, the work creates a fluid network of communication, where distinct artistic languages intersect and transform. Structured as a social experiment, it reimagines collaboration as an open, evolving system.

Drawing on transhumanistic and future-oriented aesthetics, the piece envisions art as a proactive tool for sensory and social experience. Set in the Robert Schumann Hochschule’s classical concert hall-traditionally reserved for classical music-the work transforms the venue into an experimental ground where technology mediates perception and fosters moments of collective unity.

Operating across multiple relational layers-person to person, sound to light, space to system-the project creates a rare condition in which art, technology, and sociality converge into a shared, immersive experience.

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