Krassen Krastev et ChillChill

Body Sequencer

Performance

  • 40mn
  • G Hearing loops

Conception: Krassen Krastev et ChillChill
Performance : Krassen Krastev
Video et Son : ChillChill
Costumes : Stefan Kartchev
Administration et diffusion : Katia Forchetti
Remerciments : Ivan Pittalis et Isabelle Vuong

In a rapidly changing world, where technological breakthrough and Artificial Intelligence reshape our reference points, Body Sequencer offers a poetical and reassuring read of our future. A meeting between a visual artist and a dancer-choreographer created the opportunity for a dialogue between bodies and machines, reality and virtuality, humanity and AI, shared here in an interactive and sensorial performance.

Together, they compose a “cyber cosmos”, crossed by luminous beams, sonic textures and floating shapes, creating a sensorial continuum between reality and virtuality.

In Body Sequencer, the body becomes an interface: disguised prosthesis, extensions moved by one’s thoughts, surfaces able to absorb or broadcast. Spaces blurring the lines between living and mechanical matters.

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Biographies

KRASSEN KRASTEV: Conception and choreography. Swiss dancer and choreographer of Bulgarian heritage based in Lausanne for 30 years, Krassen Krastev was trained at Sofia’s École Nationale de Danse (1983-1992) and was a runner-up of Paris’s Concours International de Danse Contemporaine in 1992. In 1993, he founded the first Bulgarian contemporary dance company, Amarante Dance Studio, before joining École Rudra Béjart in Lausanne, and then the Compagnie Linga as a dancer and assistant.

CHILLCHILL :

Born in 1990 in Beihai, China, CHILLCHILL lives and works in Shanghai, China.

Bachelor of Fine Art, Oil painting, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, 2010 – 2014

Solo Exhibition

Cute & Force majeure by MartinGoyaBusiness, Liste Showtime, Liste Art Fair Basel, 2021

Selected Group Exhibitions, 2023

‘El Nino’ by British Council x MartinGoyaBusiness, Fabrica gallery, BRIGHTON, UK, 2022