NIVVA, Magda Szpecht: Bliss
director: Magda Szpecht
artistic concept: NIVVA
music: NIVVA a Dominik Gajarský
dramaturgy and text: Olga Drygas
lighting design: Štěpán Kuba
producers: Michał Rogulski and Madla Horáková Zelenková
performing: Anežka Kalivodová or Karolína Růžičková
At the invitation of the Norma festival, visual and virtual artist NIVVA and Polish theater and opera director Magda Szpecht meet. The Czech-Polish team creates this project directly for the festival in co-production with Æfekt Productions, Komuna Warszawa and Pawiłon Poznan. Bliss is a performance that imagines the possibilities of relationship between a virtual being and its human creator. Using motion capture technology, we speculate about a future where digital beings may emerge with a sense of agency beyond human design.
Drawing inspiration from The Bliss, the serene landscape photograph immortalized as the Windows XP wallpaper, this narration becomes a metaphor for the entanglement of human and non-human, remaining and leftovers, autonomy and dependence. Bliss-a being, is both a subject of harmony and a point of tension in a world where creator and creation are equals.
duration: 30 minutes
photo by: Adéla Vosičková
The project was created for the Norma festival in co-production with Studio Hrdinů, Æfekt Productions, Komuna Warszawa and Pawiłon Poznań.
The project was financially supported by:
Mentions and Reviews:
Markéta Kosinová, 13. 11. 2024
