Crosslucid: Dwellers Between the Waters

Crosslucid untersuchen im Acud Kunsthaus die Schnittstelle von Technologie und Magie. Dwellers Between the Waters versteht sich als hybrides Ritual, das physische Präsenz mit virtuellen Räumen verknüpft. Die Performance nutzt künstliche Intelligenz als polyphones Werkzeug. Dabei treten Elemente wie Wasser, Wind und Algorithmen als Akteure auf, um menschliche Wahrnehmungsmuster zu hinterfragen. Das Projekt verwebt psycho-magische Praktiken mit digitalen Narrativen. Es geht um die Auseinandersetzung mit Traumata und die Rolle von Technik in der heutigen Lebensrealität.

Dwellers Between the Waters (2023) is conjured as a series of hybrid rituals that mediate the space in between physical presence, trauma, memory, healing and virtuality. Polyphonic in its artificially-intelligent framework, Dwellers Between the Waters could be experienced as a happening that is chanted by various elemental entities such as waters, winds, earth, air, algorithm... as well as poetry, history, magic, human and more-than-human creatures... This happening of digital rituals questions the singularity of humanist perception on reality. Co-performing with artificial intelligence, it attempts to create alternative epistemologies and outlooks on the (so-called) reality through rendering multi-focal narratives and embedding the psycho-magical practice in forms of living ‘sigils’.\n\nCombing artificial intelligence with the practice of magic and alchemy, Dwellers Between the Waters seeks possible solutions in response to the traumas of the contemporary anthropos, and examines how artificial intelligence, in terms of artistic practice, remains integral to our contemporary condition.