What happens when your real self collides with your virtual representation? Do you mimic or attempt to subvert them? What happens to your identity? Is it multiplied, becoming a conglomerate of you and your digital doppelgänger? How does the virtual affect beauty? Does it augment, distort, or reconfigure it? What becomes of expertise and virtuosity when nothing seems as it is – when action can be manipulated post-fact, when the real disintegrates against the spectacle, when everything outside the screen appears dull?
Perpetuate ennui. Embrace anomie. Live inside the abstract. Collapse. Forget. Now, consider and change.
Performed at the Royal Conservatoire in Antwerp as part of the CREATIE conference Collaborations Are More Refreshing Than New Socks by Irine Røsnes, Dejana Sekulic, and Linda Jankowska. This piece resulted from the collaborative project Mixed Currents, developed from November 2018 to December 2019. The project intends to present a paper discussing the creative process at the Performance Network Conference in July 2020 and publish a journal article for September 2020 in the CeReNeM Journal.