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Pic by Emma Grima

lun@ticå ○ sWitches

(Cyber)performance and installation commemorating Samhain, our lunatic ancestors, and the cycle of life and death—channeling the moon cycle, lunatica is the mad woman.

Format installation, performance, and cyber-performance

Media metal and glass objects. wearable electronics, conductive ink, sound and poetry, organic matter, machines

Software Max/MSP, TouchDesigner, Ableton Live, Milumin, Arduino IDE

Concept, creation, and performance by sWitches (pamela varela, Ines DeRu, ella hebendanz)

Installation with Sarah de Mulder

Special thanks to the SIGN team and everybody who contributed to the work ặnim@: Surojo, Berk Duygun, Lennart Heiner, Camila Chebez, Montserrat Balmori, Victoria Martínez Anna Arov, Marlot Meyer, Maarten Keus Adriaan Wormgoor, persophino, Taide Martínez, Anna Arov, Jill Wilkinson, Adrián López, Bob Verhoeven, Lucien Nicou, Fazle Shairmahomed, Dennis Slootweg, Davide Amato, Hilde Wollenstein, Maarten Keus, Xiaoyao Ma, Sorin Angeleanu, Hilde Barwegen, Lara Santos, Arthur Codier, and more :)

Exhibited at

“JAM-POD”, SIGN, Groningen, NL, 2021

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Lunatic, from luna (moon), means crazy. Lunática is the mad woman. Marked by the magickal passage of time, lun@ticå was presented as a performance, a cyber-performance, and an installation. The vernissage was in a new moon, the midissage in a full moon, and the finissage in the next new moon—symbolizing a cycle of closings and beginnings, decay and growth, dark and light.

With this work, we started investigating the format of “cyber-performances”. The idea was that, as a nomadic and international collective, we would always be able to transcend physicality and activate our works together from the distance and even if we were all in different spaces. lun@ticå was our first sketch, but in the work Ĭichti@, we succeeded in creating a technological system to transmit biofeedback via the Internet and make telepresence possible.

Pics by Emma Grima

Day of the Dead altar
Pic by Emma Grima

Cyber-performance in Twitch

Cyberperformance in the art space
Pic by SIGN

Pics by Emma Grima

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Commemorating Samhain and the days of the dead in different cultures, we greeted the darkness with an altar. Dedicated to our lunatic ancestors, it carries memories of the past, actions of the present, projections for the future. With this work, we said goodbye to our graduation works by transforming our individual works into collective rituals—preparing for the new cycle of working together. By releasing our madness, we sang~danced~touched.

For this work, we reused the installations of our graduation work ặnim@ to create a collective ritual, where now, we all activated the installations together instead of doing so individually.

Pic by Emma Grima

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