FEED.X (2018)
Performance. Video, Fog, Stroboscopes, Pulse Lights, Surround Sound
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© Bruno Klomfar
FEED.X is a performance set in an artificial yet physical environment without human performers in the flesh.
It’s visceral and dramatic in nature.
The precursor FEED, was conceived in 2004, as a special creation for the Theater Biennial in Venice and
designed to convey a duality of both real and rendered / virtual space.
FEED.X, now, makes less of a sensual distinction between the real and the simulated, instead staging a
more unified, though still hybrid reality, wherein boundaries continue to collapse. This is the new prosthetic
hybrid real: physical yet also simulated, natural yet also constructed.
The performance passes through two stages. The first half delivers in a traditional, frontal screening setup,
and is misleading in relation to later events. The audience follows a virtual camera moving through a 3D
rendered architecture, to eventually come about floating humanoid figures, weightlessly moving like a flock
of birds on drugs. They race, float and crash into one other in an erratic, XYZ gravity shifting world, while
synthesizing drone like sounds, through their movements.
About 20 minutes into the show, the second part of the work transforms the venue into an otherworldly
amalgam of thick, artificial fog and intensely bright pulse- and strobe light. In the audience’s heightened
perception this results in experiencing a seemingly infinite, kaleidoscopic realm of pure, animated light.
The work is often described as an unusually emotional and sublimely mesmerizing experience.
A digital-analogue sound-scape, fed via strobe to sound optical pickup - combined with ample sub-bass
creates an overpowering overall impression. Hentschlager performs the second part live, mostly improvised,
shaping the flow of light and sound via physical control interfaces.
Due to the phenomenological nature of the work, video documentation is not available. Available photos
depict moments from the first half of the show and the transition into the second fog part.
© Bruno Klomfar
FEED.X is a performance set in an artificial yet physical environment without human performers in the flesh.
It’s visceral and dramatic in nature.
The precursor FEED, was conceived in 2004, as a special creation for the Theater Biennial in Venice and
designed to convey a duality of both real and rendered / virtual space.
FEED.X, now, makes less of a sensual distinction between the real and the simulated, instead staging a
more unified, though still hybrid reality, wherein boundaries continue to collapse. This is the new prosthetic
hybrid real: physical yet also simulated, natural yet also constructed.
The performance passes through two stages. The first half delivers in a traditional, frontal screening setup,
and is misleading in relation to later events. The audience follows a virtual camera moving through a 3D
rendered architecture, to eventually come about floating humanoid figures, weightlessly moving like a flock
of birds on drugs. They race, float and crash into one other in an erratic, XYZ gravity shifting world, while
synthesizing drone like sounds, through their movements.
About 20 minutes into the show, the second part of the work transforms the venue into an otherworldly
amalgam of thick, artificial fog and intensely bright pulse- and strobe light. In the audience’s heightened
perception this results in experiencing a seemingly infinite, kaleidoscopic realm of pure, animated light.
The work is often described as an unusually emotional and sublimely mesmerizing experience.
A digital-analogue sound-scape, fed via strobe to sound optical pickup - combined with ample sub-bass
creates an overpowering overall impression. Hentschlager performs the second part live, mostly improvised,
shaping the flow of light and sound via physical control interfaces.
Due to the phenomenological nature of the work, video documentation is not available. Available photos
depict moments from the first half of the show and the transition into the second fog part.
Reviews:
+Playing With Your Senses
+FEED Visible Space Collapse digimag
+FEED DeTelegraaf Dutch
+Feed Netmage06 Italian
+Feed Nim English
+Feed Nim Italian
+Mind Altering Barton McLean
+Press-Reviews-ZEE+FEED
Photo / Stills:
Photo: © Gridspace / Elektra XX
© Bruno Klomfar
© Bruno Klomfar
© Bruno Klomfar