DØDE TING / Dead Things

Sound performance with scenography: black curtain, programmable USB-fan with text that reads VIRTUEL FRYGT I FAKTISKE

KROPPE (virtual fear in actual bodies), plaster cast, glass of water, speakers, green marble, ceramic vessels with seeds from apple (AE), Motherwort (HS),

Vervain (JU) and St. John's Wort (PP).

Duration: 18 minutes.

Made for the exhibition The Chinese Room at The Ancient History Museum, Aarhus

2016

How is virtual fear felt in an actual body? And do human thoughts have a certain privileged electricity? The sound performance piece Dead Things is a journey into a

future where the concept of artificial intelligence has a new corporeal meaning. In the piece three voices are talking to each other – two of them embodied in each

their own speaker, the third performed live. A plunge into a dream where dialogues between inner voices and appliances with strong personalities melt down in a

pulverizing and mutually curious dance.

Props: ceramic vessels with seeds from apple (AE), Motherwort (HS), Vervain (JU) and St. John's Wort (PP)

Still from video of performance, documentation by I Do Art Agency

Still from video of performance, documentation by I Do Art Agency