Auszeichnung für Post-Dervish Chant

Performance 2022: 11 June - Ars Electronica Special

A transdisciplinary performance situated as a contemporary interactive audiovisual and performative research of traditional Dervish dance methods.

The process of repetitive whirling in traditional Dervish dance allows the performers to enter a trance state which extends into an experimental, novel and spontaneous movement vocabulary that attempts to embody the relationship between diffraction, memory and vulnerability in post-pandemic, human and non-human materialities.

The interactive, laser-tracking system of Deep Space Ars Electronica helps unfold new layers of meaning–allowing for the exploration of psychological representations of the inner personal processes of the performers in real time, as they experience trance-inducing states of mind. The processual employment of dance, movement, vocalization or dance-like movement becomes a form of inquiry, rooted in personal documentary approaches done by each participating artist.