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ELSEWHERE

by THE NEEDLES

Part of the HUGGY BEAR Program in Vienna, 2022

00:00 / 03:47

The precipices of one’s own wardrobe, the wild world of supply chains, the bizarre balance of power between global north and south: The performance collective The Needles enters the spheres of virtual fashion – a universe full of digital rituals and cyberpunk avatars, where cotton is a currency and indigo an elixir of life.

 

Digital fashion is a continuation of social media filters on platforms such as Instagram or TikTok and a signifier of increasing alienation. But do technologies that merge our physical and digital realms really challenge our understanding of mutual care? The performance Elsewhere plays with our craving for instant rewards and the need for new and old rituals while at the same time exploring the history of forced labor in the neoliberal world order and its roots in colonialism.

CREDITS

 

Concept, stage and costume design: Nina Sandino

 

Research, development, music and performance by „The Needles“: Andrea Vezga Acevedo, Daniela Hernández Flores, Nina Sandino and Ragnheiður Erla Björnsdóttir.

 

Masks: Marisel Bongola

 

In close collaboration with: Flavia Mazzanti (Virtual reality consultant), Sunanda Mesquita (Dramaturgay), Rodolfo Neyra (Video/ Outside ears-eyes), Gabriela Urrutia Reyes (Digital Visual Art/ Outside ears-eyes) and Martin Wax (Outside ears-eyes).

 

Supported by Huggy Bears Mentoring Program by Bears in the Park and KLAC (Kunstlos Art Collective)

 

Special thanks to: Hena Moreno Corzo, Fidel Wilson and Yusimi Moya Rodríguez.

The website background is a photograph by Ásdís Birna Gylfadóttir

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