The international artist duo deufert&plischke present multimedia works from their project Fountains – Body Fluids after Marcel Duchamp in two different formats. In summer 2024, performers aged nine to 87 embarked on a choreographic exploration of the taboos surrounding leaking bodies, gathering cross-border stories along the way.
At the heart of Fountains lies the body as source, fluid cycle, and site of outflow. The focus is not on breaking taboos, but on exploring memories and stories in which bodies in a fluid state encounter helplessness, defiance, shame, or desire. In open, intergenerational workshops, Kattrin Deufert and Thomas Plischke collaborated with participants and artist Dessa Ganda to create texts, dances, masks, and costumes engaging deeply with the subject. Over several months of filming in an abandoned swimming pool in Schwelm and in the lake landscapes of Oravikoski, Finland, photo and video works were produced.

D.I – In the Head is part of the XR installation series Dissociative Identity (D.I), which explores the experience of dissociative identity and early childhood trauma. The work offers a sensory, immersive journey into a fragmented inner world where multiple selves and emotional states coexist. Through augmented reality, invisible psychological landscapes become spatially tangible. The installation blurs the boundaries between real and virtual, inviting reflection on the instability of memory, the complexity of identity, and the multilayered architecture of the self.

[ e s c ] explores escapism as a concept and state of mind. Inspired by the logic of algorithms and social media, it evolved into a choreographic research into digital mechanisms of escape. The work consists of five modules and opens a critical view on the interplay between virtual realities and human behavior. The audience interacts with the artworks by using their smartphone and the Artivive app.

The immersive 3D installation takes visitors on a digital journey into mysteriously dissolving spaces modeled after a theater hall. Like in a lucid dream, one moves through a point cloud of the building, encounters ghostly figures on stage, hears voices from past performances, and becomes aware of the transience of sensory experience. The dance piece developed for the work explores logic and control, distorted and distorting lucid dreams, and toxic-transformative dependencies. The underlying narrative includes excerpts from the play Vom Licht by Anselm Neft.

Are you able to fool the AI? How easy or difficult is it today for us humans to keep up with the abilities of modern AIs when it comes to spontaneously responding in the role of a well-known historical figure? The Reverse Turing Experiment offers the chance to test yourself, compare with other players, and get a sense of how close AI has already come to us – and where it may even have surpassed us.
The Reverse Turing Test is an interactive virtual reality installation that explores the boundaries between artificial and human intelligence and raises fundamental questions about human nature and reality in an increasingly digitalized world. At a time when AI systems and virtual humans are becoming ever more sophisticated, the installation challenges participants to question their ideas of authenticity, identity, and human behavior.

See Through is an innovative dance and sound creation that transports audiences into a timeless, otherworldly space where two figures plan their next move. Trapped on a distant star, they move in an endless loop of familiar patterns that mirror power and submission. Dynamics shift between dominance and vulnerability – until one figure breaks the cycle and crosses the boundary between virtual and real. As tension escalates, a weapon enters the scene – and everything takes an unpredictable turn.

LIVINGDEAD is a physical dialogue exploring the profound effects of work-related exhaustion on daily life. Through intense choreographic movement and powerful imagery, the piece reveals the endless cycle of physical and emotional depletion we are exposed to every day.

The VR film Brended was created as part of the Stage 360 project and builds on the EN-KNAP Group’s stage performance Superfluous, which was inspired by Ilija Trojanow’s essay The Superfluous Human. A text about the destructive force of capitalism, which systematically abandons man and humanity in the name of profit.

Shattered Echoes combines contemporary dance with innovative visual effects. A dancer, surrounded by mirrors, explores diopters, prisms, and kaleidoscopic distortions in 180° VR. The story follows a young woman confronting fractured versions of herself. Through movement, she symbolically struggles against broken or imperfect aspects of her identity. A poetic work about transformation, resilience, and inner clarity.

An experimental project exploring dance as a language – and inviting AI into the dialogue. Using motion tracking, bodily movements are captured and translated into music by AI. Others then interpret this music through dance, creating a continuous cycle. The project examines how emotion and meaning are co-created between bodies, technologies, and art forms.
In this interactive installation, visitors can choose a track generated from a dancer’s movements and respond with their own dance. They receive a personalized piece of music from their movements – to download and share.