Àngel Duran Performing Arts

– The simulacrum is addictive –

In the age of capsularized reality, of formats, of the nuclearization of living space, the bombardment of information and stimuli is constant and ever faster, shorter. Unable to process all this information (which replaces any fact, any reality, and which is the object of a new consumerism, a new fetishism), we are stimulated by desire in the absence of any affective pleasure. Addicted to this polymorphic dissatisfaction, we are sleepwalking automatons, insectivorous beings, victims of impulses and empty of sensitivity. Technology has become a prosthesis, an extension of our body, as well as a prison; a modern Platonic cave. The simulacrum is addictive and more appealing than reality. The infinite expansion and edition of oneself is the emblem of the new freedom: a dystopian version of the old longings for immortality. We lock ourselves in our cocoon of pixel radiation, where we die alive unable to turn off the lights of projected reality.

This proposal exposes the collision between impulse and sensitivity; false freedom and real freedom. Under the pretext of presenting the performer in a light cocoon, the new identity is questioned; the uniqueness of the new Platonic caverns; the dance of lights that constitutes the new blindness; the cables that make up the new chains.