He performance multimedia Dark (darkness, in Icelandic), created by Italian studio Fuse* (asterisk is part of the name), which blends dance, generative visuals, music and emerging technologies into a stunning interactive experience, is one of the shows featured in the edition 19 of the Mutek Mx Festival, which will take place from October 9 to 15.
With the premiere of performance of Fuse*, the festival returns to the Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris after seven years. This project is part of A/Visions 3, the Mutek Mx program that focuses attention on the possibilities of living arts when mixed with emerging technologies.
On its social networks, the festival reported that Dark is a journey through the subconscious mind, where reality is represented by worlds and universes that take shape and dissolve within the mind as it constantly seeks a balance between light and dark.
The scenic act will take the viewer through 10 spaces that evoke the stages of existence, in a circular journey from and to the origin of life and consciousness, while its production unites the possibilities between the technological and the corporeal.
Directed by Luca Camellini and Mattia Carretti, in collaboration with choreographer and dancer Elena Annovi, the Fuse* team experimented for three years with generative visuals and a complex system that allows real-time interaction between what happens on stage and the outside.
dark, with generative visual environments, immersive sound design and a system that allows interaction between what happens on stage with the dancer’s heart rate and a sentimental analysis of posts on social networks generated at the time of the performance, is a proposal that connects experimentation and avant-garde with the complexity of the human experience.
Since its premiere in 2017, this performance It has been taken to more than 25 cities around the world and was recognized with the German Design Award in 2019. This will be the last of its three presentations in 2023.
The show has been considered by the media “a visually captivating symphony” and a visual, spatial, bodily, sensory and multimedia vertigo, possible only thanks to the intense mix between the physical world and its technological expansion
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The 19th edition of the Mutek Mx festival includes the participation of artists such as William Basinski & Nika Milano, Hatis Noit & Orly Anan, James Holden & Melissa Santamaria, Marina Herlop, Tarta Relena, Grand River & Marco Ciceri, Upsammy & Jonathan Castro, Rival Consoles and Wata Igarashi, among many others.
With a program made up of 40 national and international proposals, in addition to the Esperanza Iris City Theater, Mutek will have other venues in Mexico City, from October 9 to 15.
The meeting, whose first edition was held in 2000, in Montreal, Canada, aims to be a platform for the most original and visionary artists, being a diverse space, with interests in both the experimental and the playful side of digital creativity. .
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Other artists confirmed for the festival include Kazuya Nagaya & Ali M, Demirel & Maurice Jones, Ryoichi Kurokawa, Plaid, Azu Tiwaline & Plead, Antimateria Sonora Ensamble, Buena Tarde, Evita Manji and Priori.
Dark will be presented on October 13 at 9:00 p.m. at the Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris (Donceles 36, Historic Center of Mexico City).