| 29% theatre 29% technology 13% virtual world 29% story
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Who are we? What is the self? How do we perceive this self? Can we trust our body as an interface between reality and the self? How do we construct our consciousness? Where does the manipulation begin?
The Belgian CREW company of the former comic strip designer Eric Joris, operate with their technological and yet poetic theatre on the boundary between art and science. Electronic and digital media are the driving force for this narrative journey to the terrain of neurological research. “Terra Nova”, CREW’s most ambitious project to date, is a blend of theatre performance, installation, visual challenge and virtual adventure.
Confronted with the story of Robert Scott’s legendary, tragic Antarctic expedition, that seems here to be just as much the history of recent brain research, we travel both to the South Pole and to our own consciousness. Using head-mounted displays, we vanish into the stage set, which morphs from Potemkin village into an all-embracing experience. Wherever we look, we are the protagonists of this story, that we think we are controlling, but which leads us firmly into unexpected and inexplicable spaces. Who are we? The dividing-lines blur in Eric Joris’s sensory theatre. Between technology and bodies, virtuality and reality, inside and outside.
Concept Eric Joris
Artistic direction Eric Joris & Stef De Paepe
With Stef De Paepe & Jorre Vandenbussche
Text Peter Verhelst
Sound Kreng
Software design Philippe Bekaert & EDM University of Hasselt
Artistic assistance Chantalla Pleiter
Technology Vincent Jacobs
Artistic assistance Chantalla Pleiter
Technical assistance Koen Goossens
Stage Leo Verlinden
Coordination film Dieter Lapauw
Lighting design Kim Rens & Laurence de Grande
Costumes Olivia Mortier
Production & management Vicky Vermoezen & Hilde Teuchies
Production Graz Roland Gfrerer
German simultaneous translation Robert Reinagl
Assistance Florian Kolb, Florian Gross, Lukas Walcher, Veronika Muchitsch, Viktoria Karadeniz,
Michael Sladek, Nadja Pieringer, Birgit Schachner, Christoph Stuhlpfarrer, Laura Petschnegg &
Susanne Arlt
Technical direction Hermann Schapek & Karl Masten
Technical direction MUMUTH Peter Fischer