Sentimental Bits: This Magic in Spite of Me

Music and AI based emotion detection-sonification  by: Victoria Keddie

A brief overview:

Four performers and a humanoid sex robot engage in a game with surveillance technologies that analyse their emotions and classify them. They explore what it means to be "recognised" in the eyes of artificial intelligence. They hack their digital twins, transform and duplicate their physical bodies. Their gazes cross those of the camera, faces become instruments. In immersive soundscapes, the performers momentarily shake socially constructed categories perpetuated in technology. They make the area in between their world and discover the poetics of glitches - disturbances in the system.

Artistic direction, co-choreography, concept and performance: Gloria Höckner

Performance, Co-Choreography, Text: Katja-Maria/Kay Taavitsainen, Lois Bartel, Rebecca Pokua Korang, Tanja Erhart, Gloria Höckner

Dramaturgie: Isabel Gatzke

Music: Victoria Keddie

Costume, make up: Ilona Klein Bühnenbildner/ -in: Einsiedel & Jung

Lighting design, Technical direction: Ricarda Schnoor

Programming: Paul Geisler, Fabian Nitschkowski

3D models: Vanessa A. Opoku

Production & communication: Stückliesel

Video operator: Mathias Hollaender & Alexander Nham

Assistenz: Ruxin LiuAudio description: Xenia Taniko, Nic Meyer & Gerald PirnerEditing audio description: Frank Amann

Video documentation: Martin Prinoth 

Video teaser: Friederike Höppner

Scene photos: Jonas Fischer 

Graphic: Lisa-Marie Fechteler

A production by Gloria Höckner in co-production with K3 and in cooperation with Ballhaus Ost Berlin.Supported by: Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, Elbkulturfonds, Kofinanzierungsfonds Berlin, Hamburgische Kulturstiftung.With the kind support of Hood House.

This event is took place as part of the TanzHochDrei festival.