Hugvee

The voice is surely an uncanny phenomenon. In the digital age it leaves us constantly in doubt, if a person or a non-person is speaking. In this immersive performance, doubt and conviction change roles in the blink of an eye. Spread out on a hilly landscape, audience engages in a conversation with something that is there and not there at the same time. An artificial voice functions as a mediator, a partner and a mirror to one’s own.

While conversations are constructed word-by-word, impressions are shared, naps are taken, and time is passed, Hugvee is an invitation to suspend eye-to-eye relations and to reposition yourself in direct relation to the non-human.

credits

Concept & direction: Begüm Erciyas
Set design: Elodie Dauguet
Light design: Jan Maertens
Sound design: Adolfina Fuck
Interface developer: Ruben van de Ven
Dramaturgy: Marnix Rummens
Script collaboration: Adolfina Fuck, Katja Dreyer, Dennis Deter, Hermann Heisig, Jean-Baptiste Veyret-Logerias
Producer: Barbara Greiner
Artistic advice: David Weber-Krebs
Research support: Robert M. Ochshorn, Holger Heissmeyer, Ewa Bankowska, Jozef Wouters, Diego Agullo, Vincent Roumagnac, Taro Inamura, Michael Spranger
Production: Begüm Erciyas and Platform 0090
With the support of the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès within the framework of the New Settings Program
Co-production: Kunstenfestivaldesarts Brussels, STUK Leuven, Buda Kortrijk , PACT Zollverein Essen, Centre Dramatique National Nanterre-Amandiers
Research support: wpZimmer Antwerp, Q-O2 Brussels, Saison Foundation Tokyo
Funded by Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe and Flemish Community, Ministery of Culture