METATRIXX

JUNE 2022

PREMIERE at Lente Kabinet Amsterdam

Supported by CBK Rotterdam

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Meta-trixx marks a rebirth of the trickster myth in the post-club context, in the convergence of alternate realities where we witness treachery of images - deep fake, post-truth, gamified and simulated realms.

 

RADICAL EMBODIMENT

in the treacherous Metaverse territories becomes key to integrating inorganic, organic and animal dimensions, a path to explore notions of performativity vs authenticity in the pool of online avatars, identities, and practices. The human animals loves to be mesmerised and loured into treacherous territories, witnessing what is “not a ritual” - a hyper-reality made of symbols and signs that become the truth itself (Boudrillard). Is embracing the plasticity of the simulation the only way to transcend it?

 

This project manifested as a collection of sounds, research texts, an educational course Hacker as Trickster, and visual experiments involving photogrammetry, photography, 360 videos, social media content, and garment research. From researching the trickster myth across cultures, simulation and virtual reality theories, ritual clothing, shapewear, body enhancement fabrics, invention of lycra, and origin of optic illusions, Gestalt theory, Bertollini’s law and the Law of similarity.

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