Viral Reload: Holistic Memetics
(2020)Curated by F96 for Gessneralle Zürich
Direction: AMAYA SCHUBERT
Performance: Deva Schubert (as “Oftalmosomat”) / Juan Felipe Amaya González (as “Cephaloglot”,)
Sound design: Harrald Stojan
Costume: Julietta Omil
Video: Massih Parsei
Special thanks to: Florin Lindner, György Jellinek
Duration: 3 min (Performed via Instagram)
Viral Reload: Holistic Memetics is a mixed media online work by Deva Schubert and Juan Felipe Amaya Gonzalez adapted from the live performance Viral Reload. The piece consists of a series of short video clips, animations, and augmented reality filters specifically made to be shared through Instagram. The piece addresses viral phenomena through posthuman performativity. It navigates and embraces the ambivalent state of avatars and online representations of the performers Deva and Juan Felipe. These bodies develop choreographic scores within an alpine and new age mythological landscapes, creating entities that have the potential to blur the boundaries of their bodies, between the interior and exterior, between their gender identities, and even questioning their own ontology by becoming replicas of themselves.
Amongst the entities that emerge are virtual human-like avatars of tongues and eyes (a “Cephaloglot”, “Oftalmosomat”, or a “Lingocorp”) communicating non-verbally
Original version available on Instagram.
Amongst the entities that emerge are virtual human-like avatars of tongues and eyes (a “Cephaloglot”, “Oftalmosomat”, or a “Lingocorp”) communicating non-verbally
Original version available on Instagram.
viral Reload [Stage Version]
(2020)Tanzwerkstatt Europa - open stage
Direction: AMAYA SCHUBERT
Performance: Deva Schubert / Juan Felipe Amaya González
Costume: Julietta Omil
Photo: Michael Reinecke
Duration: 20 min
By intuitively feeling current and historical bodies, they become distorted, they become sketches of themselves, they become undercover and blurry. Without explicitly being programmed to perform the task of feeling, interacting, and relating, in “viral RELOAD” Deva Schubert and Juan Felipe Amaya Gonzalez speculate together with an alphorn about the future of togetherness, folk, touch, and otherwise unknown events.
viral Reload [Finissage]
(2020)Dzialdov Berlin
Direction: AMAYA SCHUBERT
Performance: Deva Schubert / Juan Felipe Amaya González
Music: Georgi Tomov Georgiev
Costume: Monika Dorniak
Photos: Philipp Weinrich
Video: Ayasha Guerin
Special thanks to Ulrike Zöllner
Duration: 40 min
By intuitively feeling current and historical bodies, they become distorted, they become sketches of themselves, they become undercover and blurry. Without explicitly being programmed to perform the task of feeling, interacting, and relating, in “viral RELOAD” Deva Schubert and Juan Felipe Amaya Gonzalez accompanied by the costumes of Monika Dorniak and the sound of Georgi Tomov Georgiev speculate about the future of togetherness, folk, touch, and otherwise unknown events.