What possible futures can come from a deck of 22 digital oracle cards? In UNDERWORLDS, artist duo Boogaerdt/vanderSchoot will take you on a visionary journey into the great below. A gateway experience where in ancient myth mirrors a shimmering future.
Emerging from the dark is the coming of age of the homo digitalis. BVDS fuses the ancient Greek tale of Psyche’s quest in the underworld, into a new visual narrative about the development of humankind. Tunnel down through the visionary journey of Psyche and see the world in vertigo, a world that swarms with technological mediation and makes myths vibrant again. During this rite of passage, escorted by The Shadow Sisters, ritual divination and archaic oracle texts, merge with Insta-filtered faces, reality-shift tutorials, dragons, butterflies, and unicorns. How to be many? UNDERWORLDS shapeshifts in between daydream, nightmare, and game world, and allows the human body, with all its virtual alter egos, to come home to a non-binary multiverse.
This performance takes place at Het Huis Utrecht, Boorstraat 107, Utrecht
Regie - Bianca van der Schoot (NL), uitvoering - Suzan Boogaerdt (NL), Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti (BR), Jing Xijang (DE) en Klara Alexova (CZ) Sculpturen/maskers/kostuums - Lotte Goos (NL) scenografie - Lena Newton (DE) videowerk - Mikko Gaestel (DE) geluidscomposities - Remco de Jong (NL) en Florentijn Boddendijk (NL) BVDS in coproductie met Schauspielhaus Bochum en Theater Rotterdam
