a performance by Magda Szpecht and NIVVA
What happens when the lines between creator, creation and creature blur? When what was once yours takes on a life of its own? A breakdow, a transformation? An eerie beauty of letting go? A glitch in reality?
BLISS, is a collaboration between Polish theater director Magda Szpecht and Czech virtual artist NIVVA. The performance is inspired by the digital nostalgia of the Windows XP „Bliss” wallpaper, warps the iconic serenity into a playground for shifting identities. Using motion-capture technology, BLISS brings a virtual being to life. Who is in control? Who is watching whom? And can we ever truly escape the versions of ourselves we leave behind?
With haunting visuals, fluid movement, and a creeping sense of the surreal, BLISS explores what happens when the fragments of our past begin to gather. To form. To breathe. In this performance, we step into the world where time bends, memories dissolve, and the body becomes both vessel and witness. BLISS is therefore a visceral, 30 minute meditation on transformation, loss, and renewal.
Step in. Let go. And see if you can still find your way – back or forth.
Concept/directed by: Magda Szpecht
Concept, 3D work & video: NIVVA
Performed by: Anežka Kalivodová / Karolína Růžičková
Music: NIVVA x Dominik Gajarský
Dramaturgy and text: Olga Drygas
PL production: Michał Rogulski ÆFEKT
CZ production: Madla Horakova Zelenkova
Production of Studio Hrdinu x Festival Norma, ÆFEKT Productions and Pawilon Poznań.
Premiere @Norma Festival in Prague (Studio Hrdinu): 17.11.2024