Brig Huezo

The Death At The Code! is a postdigital performance bringing together game design and dance. It includes human as well as non-human performers, none of whom hold absolute power. Between the two, it is unclear what is more monstrous: the human body in constant decay or the everlasting representation without any conception of death and thus of life, forever caught between the worlds.Remixing references from TikTok, memes, gaming culture, cyberpunk as well as Gothic art, the performance unfolds in the space between physical and digital. Playing with motion tracking and accompanied by a screen triptych, The Death At The Code! focuses on process and uses gaps and mistranslations as its (non-)material. The self is expanded across the physidigital, and subjectivity becomes blurry. Code, dance, pixels, hardware, longing, hormones, bones, skins – everything can be transformed into another, anything can be connected. This becoming cyborg is neither pain-free nor strictly utopian. Instead, it makes necessary a constant negotiation of death, desire and existence. Technology forces its own claims onto the production, avenging the heresy of creating a being that can never be brought to life. A vampire living within the night of the code, the metahuman dances with bodies of flesh and muscle. The Death At The Code! finds beauty in the grotesque, the glitch, the wound.

Duration: 90 min.

Please note: Loud music, strobe lights and a fog machine are used in the play. The visual effects may also cause reactions in people who are sensitive to sight and movement. Blood imitation is used.

Brig Huezo ( Pronouns they/them*) is Post-Digital Choreographer, Dancer and Performer. They hold a BA in Dance from the University of Music and Dance Cologne (2021), supported by DAAD and private scholarships. Huezo is the award winner for the NRW State Prize for Young Artists 2024 in Performing arts. Their latest piece THE DEATH AT CODE has been nominated for the 35. dance theatre award 2024 by the SK foundation of culture in the city of Cologne Germany. Brig Huezo’s work focuses on deconstructing the body within a tech-driven, virtual world.  Working at the intersection of motion tracking technology, gaming, 3D design, and film. Their work explores the realms of physical and digital realities, through a phygital dance practice, they blend real-time movement with immersive digital environments, creating hybrid experimental spaces where identity and the body exist in constant flux. Their work portrays bodies as glitches and ephemeral entities, continually shifting, reorganizing, and transforming.
 

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