We Are The Progeny of Electricity

We Are the Progeny of Electricity is a hybrid work combining live performance, interactive theatre and electronic art. Using technology in an aesthetic presentation evoking the mind-control experiments the CIA conducted in the 1950s with psychotropic drugs, this project immerses its spectators in an unsettling choreography in order to reprogram them. Spectators sit in a space plunged in darkness, except for their faces, which are lit up by pico projectors. Each person’s head appears disconnected from the body, and each person is positioned face to face with another. In this environment, their faces are lit up and altered by the video projections. Spectators are also given instructions on how to act out their individual roles. A subtle narrative on the themes of individual and cultural identity, the collective future, politics, and power dynamics gradually develops between the members of this fictive community.