fuse*: Dökk

Everything that surrounds us is nothing but a collection of atoms, particles and electromagnetic fields, vibrating without any apparent meaning. When these impulses are interpreted by our mind, they become colours, tastes, music, memories and emotions: the foundations of what each one of us perceives as reality. Live Media Performance Dökk is a journey through the subconscious mind, where reality is represented by worlds and universes that take form and dissolve within the mind, as it constantly seeks a balance between light and darkness.

Dökk, “darkness” in Icelandic, is the upshot of three years of work by art studio fuse* aimed at the creation of a show capable of stimulating a sense of profound empathy, transmitting two key concepts: synchronicity and the unforeseeableness of human existence. In order to obtain this result, the performance combines live choreography and a real-time data system that analyzes sound, the movement of the performer, her heartbeat and the sentimental analysis of contents shared on social networks. This data is then interpreted and projected simultaneously in the form of digital landscapes and 3D objects.

With Dökk, the stage becomes a place in which it is possible to lose one’s perception of space and time: a place of the mind in which reality is reconstructed as the result of one’s own actions, and in which every gesture has its own particular consequence.