Sunday, June 16 2024
4pm
performance
Stage design: Liwia Stern
Music: Bungalovv
In the back of the pool’s green area, performance artist Cru Encarnação invites the audience to an enchanting performance. LEGERDEMAIN takes a critical look at the production and manipulation of truth, using the means of illusionism and stage magic of the turn of the century, also known as the fin-de-siècle (1890-1914).
Legerdemain is a technique within stage magic, in which illusions are created by skillful hand movements: a good magician deceives their audience through sleight-of-hand. The performance encourages us to think about the value of a magic trick and asks: What is our fascination? Is it the illusion itself or the witty technique behind it?
Cru Encarnação explores how deception operates not only individually, but also in the collective construction of myths and truths. As collective narratives shape our (supposed) reality, LEGERDEMAIN encourages us to take a closer look at truth and illusion. In Cru Encarnação's performance, certain norms, such as gender roles, consumerism and colonialist fabrications are exposed as tricks of Truth production.
LEGERDEMAIN is realized in cooperation with the artists Bungalovv (live set) and Liwia Stern (stage design).
About the Artists
Cru Encarnação (he|they) was born in 1997 in Lisbon (PRT), and now lives and works in Berlin. His practice is concernced with the tension between magic and science. In his work, he incorporates phenomenology and feminist philosophy of science, as well as a critical examination of the role of masculinity in 19th-century stage magic, the history of science, and transsexual discourse. He explores the structures of perception and how illusion as well as chance shape collective belief. He is interested in socially constructed notions of meaning and marginal definitions of "technology" and "knowledge." His interests include neo-eschatology, engineering, chemistry, and conspiracy theories. His most recent performances were shown at LARK in Berlin (DE), Galerias Municipais in Lisbon (PRT) and SLUG gallery in Leipzig (DE).
Liwia Stern (she|her) was born in 2002 and is a queer Polish- Nigerian artist based in Berlin. In her practice she questions the artifice of identity, with a primary focus on the topics of race and gender. She navigates within these themes threw explorations of sexuality, esotericism, ancestral knowledge, myth and fantasy. Deriving primary from her own background and experience her work is centred around reconstructing narratives of Black people in society into ones that liberate and decolonize the body. The main mediums she works with are sculpture, painting and set design - where she intents at creating immersive experiences by weaving her ritualistic practices with scenography to transforms rooms into spaces of magic, that awaken the senses, heal and connect. Her work was most recently shown at Molt and Oxi in Berlin (DE).
Bungalovv is the electronic alternative music project by Pablo Betas, who was born in 1989 and who lives and works in Berlin (DE). Pablo Betas is a core member of Infinite Machine (MEX/CA) and one of the founders of Trueno (AR).
His sound is the anchoring of Middle Eastern rhythms, wild percussions, pre-columbian instruments and Latin American shades. All these elements are articulated around an experimental ecosystem where nocturnal, robotic and mechanical faunas coexist. Bungalovv released his first vinyl album on the Shanghai (CHN) label Genome 6.66Mbp in April 2023. His release was featured on Resident Advisor, Dj Mag and Kaltblut, among others.
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