Brig Huezo: The Death At The Code!

In the organizer's words:

The Death At The Code! is a post-digital performance that brings together game design and dance, human and non-human performers. Both are monstrosities: the biological body in constant decay and the eternal representation with no concept of death and life, forever trapped between worlds. In a reference remix of TikTok, meme and gaming culture, cyberpunk and gothic, the performance focuses on gaps and mistranslations. The self spans the entire spectrum of the phygital, the physical and the digital - between body and representation, all subjectivity becomes blurred. Code, dance, pixels, desire, hardware, hormones, bones, skin - everything can be translated into the other and linked in endless constellations. This cyborg becoming is neither painless nor strictly utopian. Instead, it demands constant negotiations of death, desire and existence. Technology imposes its own demands on production - revenge for the heresy of creating a being that can never be brought to life. The metahuman, a vampire in the night of the code, dances with bodies of flesh and muscle. The Death At The Code! finds beauty in the grotesque, in the open wound, in the glitch.

Duration: 90 min.

Note: The play uses loud music, strobe lights and a fog machine. The visual effects may also cause reactions in people who are sensitive to sight and movement.Blood imitation will be used.

Brig Huezo is a post-digital choreographer, dancer and performer. Huezo is the winner of the State Prize for Young Artists NRW 2024 in the field of performing arts. Huezo studied Contemporary Dance at the Cologne University of Music and Dance (2021), funded by the DAAD and other scholarships. The latest piece The Death At The Code! is nominated for the 35th Dance Theater Prize 2024 of the SK Cultural Foundation of the City of Cologne. Brig Huezo is interested in the deconstruction of the body in a virtual, technology-driven world. They work at the intersection of motion tracking technology, gaming, 3D design and film. Through a phygital dance practice, Huezo's work explores hybrid experimental spaces where identity and the body are in constant flux, seen as glitches and ephemeral entities that are constantly shifting, reorganizing and transforming.