Gianluca Iadema – ID[entità] – Un_i[n]verso

I’m searching for a way out

ID[entità] is a collaboration between Gianluca Iadema and Franziska Baumann, resulting in a cycle of voice and electronics compositions from 2017 to 2021. Iadema takes inspiration from Baumann’s improvisations and reworks them in an electronic context, creating an oscillating interplay of acoustic and electronic sounds.

Un_i[n]verso is a site-specific audiovisual sculpture exploring the concept of matter through the merging of different media, creating an artistic form in which the viewer experiences them as a whole. The work takes the viewer on a constant, slow zoom from macroscopic dimensions to deconstructed cities and their details, blurring the line between reality and imagination.

“I’m searching for a way out” is an extended multimedia performance that explores the relationship between human consciousness, the subconscious, and digital reality. The performance is immersive and ergodic, with artificial intelligence and multidimensionality adding to the hyperreality. The stage becomes a metaphor for the brain, with the human merging with algorithms and artificial intelligence, exploring the idea of machine emotion and the fluid exchange between the phenomenological world, memory, imagination, and the absurd. The performance is divided into four main events, including the initialization of a video game and a rave party as a materialized experience of collective dream. The dramaturgy is inspired by cubism, breaking up subjects and backgrounds and abstracting them from multiple viewpoints.

Sa, 30. Sep 18 Uhr

HKB, Auditorium, Ostermundigenstrasse 103, 3006 Bern

Mentored by Simon Steen-Andersen and Leo Dick

Performers:

Rahel Egger, Andrea Zamengo, Bernat Pont, Ludmilla Mercier, Matthias Müller, Mireia Pellisa Martín, Robin Rindlisbacher, Ulysse Loup, Pierre Dayer

Mo, 2. Okt 18 Uhr

HKB, Auditorium, Ostermundigenstrasse 103, 3006 Bern

Mentored by Simon Steen-Andersen

Performers:

Ensemble NEKO 3

Ludmilla Mercier TALK

“I love all insider memoirs. It doesn’t matter whether it’s truck drivers or doctors. I think everybody likes to go backstage, find out what people think and what they talk about and what specialised job they have.”

David Mamet

“Dramas, love stories, lies and betrayals.”

Thinking of Macbeth?

Try something else: get comfortable on the couch. Turn on the television.

Don’t you see dramas, stories of love, lies and transformations?

Let’s change the channel!

Formation: 4 musiciens, 1 comédienne, 3 performeurs, 1 artiste sonore

Tianyu Zou Grande Étude (Tentative Title)

This project is a stage work that immerses the audience in an audiovisual illusion, achieved through the blend of lighting effects and electro-acoustic music. Three performers and their miniature figures will be used to realize the relationship between human, object, and space. The spatial position and light-dark relationship of the stage and lighting will be creatively utilized to construct three nested theaters, resulting in a sensory illusion. The miniature figures and objects will be synchronized with electronic music playback, creating an acoustic illusion that contrasts with the real-world performance. However, the theater itself, laid out by flickering projections, is also a giant oscillator. The miniatures possess an intrinsic aesthetic quality, as suggested by “The Savage Mind,” which ensures babies survive with proper care. The instinctive “desire to protect” was explained in a reasonable and convincing way, as Claude Lévi-Strauss noted. The miniature objects exert the same incredible energy as the original voluminous objects, leaving a profound impression. Through the cooperative action of human and non-human performers, it seeks to connect the space in which they are with the microscopic world being presented, subtly evoking the audience’s perception of physical space. It evokes a general sense of humility and loneliness deep inside.

Do, 5. Okt 18 Uhr

HKB, Auditorium, Ostermundigenstrasse 103, 3006 Bern

Mentored by Simon Steen-Andersen

Malina Tiulete, Victòria

Tuneu i Cabré, Sebastian Carrasco Mendoz, Inga Piwowarska, N. N.