dev01ded is a Berlin-based shamanic media art collective. Founded in 2009 by valquire (DE) and xorzyzt (US), they channel the spirit world through a combination of old and new video/sound/scrying technologies presented in the form of interactive and personal installations and performances. grayl (DE) has committed herself to being a medium for necromantic invocations.
Breaking down the boundaries of media as it is conventionally presented, the artists physically and emotionally confront the senses and bodies of the audience through their struggles with the materialized media as they grapple with their inner demons.
www.dev01ded.com exists as the interstitial exhibition site where their creative/curative rites breach the gap between the real and the virtual, the past, present and future worlds.
process
dev01ded’s work has developed in the direction of site-specific interactive media performances; no longer just interested in reaching their own inner-demons, they wish to work outside the conventional art and performance exhibition framework to connect with places with lost histories, settings that tell their own stories, which can connect and catalyze the narrative dev01ded has begun. This is the manifest that guides the creative process for their future performance projects:
1. resurrect
Go to a city, explore its abandoned and forgotten spaces, and research their history. Excavate the societally repressed demons of its past.
2. capture
With video and sound, capture (our impressions of ) the locations that still contain the psychically restless undercurrents.
3. possess
Allow the raw sonic/visual/tangible material to cataylze within the artists’ psyches, possess their bodies, and take its aesthetic form.
4. exorcise and transform
The artists perform, both as mediums and exorcists, manipulating the materialized media and manifested spiritual3 energy, through physical and emotional exertion until exhaustion and or expulsion. In the process we respond to live feedback, creating a resonance in the performance site and enabling it to transcend its locatability.
5. preserve
Leave behind the aura of the performers, relics of the performance, and documentation of the event which preserves the transformation made to the site and its spirit until the next intervention is made.
26 JUN 10, .HBC Berlin
e'clepsydre - jupiter uranus conjunction
the energies of expansive jupiter aligned with disruptive uranus will be actualized in an unpredictable alchemical combination based on soothsaying and iatromathematical principles to transform the .HBC event space into a living, breathing multi-sensorial media-enhanced art, music, fashion, performance organism.
this microcosmic constellation of imagination incarnate, curated with the current planetary coordinates, and based on their bodily corollaries, will galvanize within a fragile hourglass, ruled by the tumultuous tides of time and tempered by the technological touch of indeterminacy, to concentrate nature and generate a magnificent pendulum of perpetual eclipse for all to witness.
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xorzyzt
xorzyzt, a.k.a. Brandon Rosenbluth, b. Los Angeles, 1986, Bard College class of 2008, is an experimental process-based media artist, making de-structural videos/re-animations and drone/dance musical compositions, for immersive metaphysical installations and projection-integrated performances. He has been living in Berlin since June 2009. Visit nomonoker for more insights.
dev01ded artist page | nomonoker
valquire
dev01ded artist page | valquire.de
grayl
dev01ded artist page
11 SEP 10, TERRARIAUM / Show Cave @ Hotel MariaKapel in Hoorn (NL) / work in progress
up/routed performance w/ interactive sound and video sensors
Plants' roots must be buried in order to live while humans are only buried when they are dead or meant to die. We bury our fears and traumas deep inside ourselves hoping they will slowly disintegrate, but we end up rotting out from the inside. Physically routed to their own system of interactive video, sound, and light, dev01ded, embodying their fears, will be slowly buried within an hourglass of dirt and technology, and he who buries them further entrenching himself in fear.
TBA / work in progress
cocoon Site-specific performance w/ video and sound
Fifteen concrete covered cocoons will be dispersed over the abandoned parking garage rooftop for viewers to discover as they wander. The cocoons begin to tremble, then shake. Dislocated hammering and construction sounds are heard from speakers placed around the perimeter. Twelve black spiderpeople hatch and scurry across the ground and walls, the amplified sound of their movements and restlessness following them as video echoes and phantom visions of the spiders are projected, with broken mirror/glass distortions, on the two opposing walls in the central space. They form an amorphous pile under three cocoons hanging in the middle and start clawing and gnawing to release the three hive mediums within.
TBA / work in progress
solipsystem immersive motorzed video installation
solipsystem follows the psyche embodied as it erases it’s physical boundaries and consequently it’s individual existence, exponentially reproducing itself beyond the capacity of its container and thus sacrificing itself to the greater psyche.
TBA / work in progress
impaled interactive video installation
interactive sculpture portal with decapitated videohead and landscape portals impaled on fluorescent lightspears.
