As part of ManiFeste-2022 at Centre Pompidou, presented by Ircam
Anima™, his multimedia theatre, is the name of an institution in which visitors enter into contact with their own past and probable future. The performers, "patients" in this institute, follow a scenario that is delivered in real time. It has all been elaborated from real data for the Ensemble Decoder performers, in an ongoing process of transformation and alienation.
An institute for self-optimization. A church for transcendence. A simulation space for the bored escapist. A therapy session for the traumatized self. An iteration loop to break the pattern. Which pattern? The pattern. The pattern of self. The pattern of the subject. The pattern of internal world building:
This framing is clear.
Artistic director, composer: Alexander Schubert
Choreography: Patricia Carolin Mai
Video: Lucas Gutierrez
Scenography: Stefan Britze
Costumes: Felina Levits
Lights: Diego Muhr
Ircam electronics: Thomas Goepfer, Dionysios Papanicolaou
Sound distribution: Luca Bagnoli
Scientific collaboration with Ircam-STMS (ACIDS): Antoine Caillon, Philippe Esling
Performance: Decoder-Ensemble , Carola Schaal, Jonathan Shapiro, Andrej Koroliov, Leopold Hurt, Sonja Lena Schmid, Guy Marsan, Si-Ying Fung, Ines Assoul,Stefanie Inhelder, Lise Herdam
Text Assistance: Michael Brailey
Production: Lisa Brunmayr, Mirella Frenzel, Dennis Naehr
Commissioned by: Ircam-Centre Pompidou
Fotos: Hervé Véronèse (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11), Quentin Chevrier (7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15)
29.–30.09.2023 | PACT Zollverein, Essen |
21.–22.10.2022 | Kampnagel, Hamburg |
11.06.2022 | Centre Pompidou , Paris |
With the support of the Darstellende Künste fund financed by the Federal Commissioner for Culture and Media and the Ministry for Culture and Media Hamburg, Elbkulturfonds, Impuls Neue Musik, Rudolf Augstein Stiftung, Lichthof Stiftung from the ULYSSES network, subsidised by the Creative Europe programme of the Europe