AWAKEN (2025)

Описание: This audio-visual live performance combines world-building and storytelling to transport the audience to an alternate reality. At the heart of this experience is a Post-Anthropocene imagination that begins with a global catastrophe, plunging the world into an unrelenting cycle of extremes. The protagonist, a hybrid monster struggling to endure, embarks on a surreal journey toward transcendence.

The performance begins with visuals generated through a layered process: models created in 3D softwares are used to train an AI model, producing hauntingly surreal imagery. These visuals, imbued with the desolation and wonder of the story’s world, are enhanced in real time using TouchDesigner, where audio-interactive effects are synchronized with the sound designer, Gareth Philips’s soundtrack. The music’s pounding rhythm mirrors the monster's heartbeat, immersing the audience in the harrowing and transformative experience. By forgoing traditional narration, the piece allows viewers to explore and interpret the monster's journey for themselves, uncovering the intricate layers of this fractured world.

​​Xinde Ren is a visual artist working at the convergence of emerging technologies and creative expression. Drawing from mythological archetypes, speculative Sci-fi narratives, and Taoist cosmology, Ren’s work invites audiences into immersive, self-reflective rituals designed to evoke primal emotional responses from hand drawing to deep learning algorithms.

Gareth Phillips is a filmmaker, sound and graffiti artist of mixed heritage. His dual engagement in the film industry and sonic experimentation allows him to craft immersive narratives where storytelling and auditory landscapes intertwine. Drawing from the rich mythologies of Wales and India, and raw techno from early 2000s, Phillips explores distorted, fragmented, and hypnotic rhythms, to echo the struggle of the individual against systemic forces.

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