Author: stm@modularbrains.net
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The Impossibility of Invisibility
Stelios Manousakis Transdisciplinary theatrical music performance “Technology doesn’t just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.” Sherry Turkle, The Documented Life, 2013 Context The Impossibility of Invisibility is a multifaceted, transdisciplinary, speculative project exploring the emerging field of WiFi sensing: a nascent, barely…
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ORITO and KUKA / THEY WHO REBUILD
Ulrike Quade, Lisenka Heijboer Castañón, Stephanie Pan Transdisciplinary Opera | in development IN DEVELOPMENT The story The world has ended. The only survivors are ORITO, a hyper-realistic Bunraku puppet, and KUKA, an industrial robot. Apparently, without memories or context, they attempt to construct a new reality. They search for meaning in a ruined world where…
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Endosymbiont Hypothesis
Marc Alberto, Floris van Bergeijk, Lynn Cassiers, Ji Youn Kang, Stelios Manousakis, Stephanie Pan Hybrid music performance | 2025 The Endosymbiont Hypothesis is a music performance project that transcends boundaries and expectations to create a new, truly contemporary musical idiom. The performances of this collective of six leading musicians/composers irreverently combine, juxtapose, weave through and…
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Network Parasites (Hertzian Field #4)
Stelios Manousakis Lecture Performance | 2024 Network Parasites (Hertzian Field #4) is an augmented reality lecture performance on ‘parasitic sensing’: past, future, and present. Our hyper-connected lifestyle has flooded our spaces with oceans of radio waves and microwaves. While invisible, these waves are as real as the air we breathe. And while we lack the capacity to feel…
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The Art of Doing Nothing: a feminist manifesto
Stephanie Pan, with Ensemble Klang Theatrical Music Performance | 2024 The Art of Doing Nothing: a feminist manifesto is about listening to yourself and the world around you. About saving power to explode with power. It is not about doing nothing. It is a proposal for navigating choice and making sense of your own place in…
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Re-Imagining Opera
Marc Alberto, Floris van Bergeijk, Lynn Cassiers, Ji Youn Kang, Stelios Manousakis, Stephanie Pan Hybrid music performance | 2023 What can the word ‘opera’ mean in the 21st century and how is it relevant? Forging a collaboration between V2_Klub and Opera Forward Festival from the National Opera, Re-Imagining Opera explores the notion of opera from unexpected perspectives casting…
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Faun
Giacomo Della Marina Dance performance | 2022 Giacomo della Marina takes a turning point in dance history, Nijinksi’s famous solo ‘L’apres midi d’un Faun’ from 1912, as the starting point for an original and sensory reflection on contemporary themes such as inclusivity and the general sense of transition and disorientation. Society struggles to accept bodies…
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Algorithmic Knitting Design
Stephanie Pan Textile art | 2022-ongoing Algorithmic Knitting Design is a project integrating fashion design, knitting and algorithmic thinking into the development of a large collection of handknitting patterns for wearable attire, accessories, and homeware available to general public. With this project Stephanie Pan is developing a growing collection of knitwear patterns that incorporate algorithmic computing…
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Modern Body Laboratory #3: PORTALS
Modern Body platform Performative Exhibition | 2021 Modern Body Laboratory #3: PORTALS is the 3rd edition of our laboratory series. It presents new intermedia performances and installations that open portals to different worlds, offering new perspectives to our surroundings. Curatorial Statement For more than a year we have been balancing on a threshold, at the…
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An Absurdist Archive of Isolation: a full body workout radio play
They Gather Participatory performance | 2021 This first-person performance/radio play is a genre-blurring 26-minute trip offering a deep dive into our relationship with time and the freedom of isolation. The piece unfolds and transforms your domestic environment through music, text and your movement, turning it into the setting of a multisensory experience. The narrator guides…
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The Impossibility of Invisibility
Stelios Manousakis Transdisciplinary theatrical music performance “Technology doesn’t just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.” Sherry Turkle, The Documented Life, 2013 Context The Impossibility of Invisibility is a multifaceted, transdisciplinary, speculative project exploring the emerging field of WiFi sensing: a nascent, barely…
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ORITO and KUKA / THEY WHO REBUILD
Ulrike Quade, Lisenka Heijboer Castañón, Stephanie Pan Transdisciplinary Opera | in development IN DEVELOPMENT The story The world has ended. The only survivors are ORITO, a hyper-realistic Bunraku puppet, and KUKA, an industrial robot. Apparently, without memories or context, they attempt to construct a new reality. They search for meaning in a ruined world where…
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Endosymbiont Hypothesis
Marc Alberto, Floris van Bergeijk, Lynn Cassiers, Ji Youn Kang, Stelios Manousakis, Stephanie Pan Hybrid music performance | 2025 The Endosymbiont Hypothesis is a music performance project that transcends boundaries and expectations to create a new, truly contemporary musical idiom. The performances of this collective of six leading musicians/composers irreverently combine, juxtapose, weave through and…
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Network Parasites (Hertzian Field #4)
Stelios Manousakis Lecture Performance | 2024 Network Parasites (Hertzian Field #4) is an augmented reality lecture performance on ‘parasitic sensing’: past, future, and present. Our hyper-connected lifestyle has flooded our spaces with oceans of radio waves and microwaves. While invisible, these waves are as real as the air we breathe. And while we lack the capacity to feel…
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The Art of Doing Nothing: a feminist manifesto
Stephanie Pan, with Ensemble Klang Theatrical Music Performance | 2024 The Art of Doing Nothing: a feminist manifesto is about listening to yourself and the world around you. About saving power to explode with power. It is not about doing nothing. It is a proposal for navigating choice and making sense of your own place in…
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Re-Imagining Opera
Marc Alberto, Floris van Bergeijk, Lynn Cassiers, Ji Youn Kang, Stelios Manousakis, Stephanie Pan Hybrid music performance | 2023 What can the word ‘opera’ mean in the 21st century and how is it relevant? Forging a collaboration between V2_Klub and Opera Forward Festival from the National Opera, Re-Imagining Opera explores the notion of opera from unexpected perspectives casting…
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Faun
Giacomo Della Marina Dance performance | 2022 Giacomo della Marina takes a turning point in dance history, Nijinksi’s famous solo ‘L’apres midi d’un Faun’ from 1912, as the starting point for an original and sensory reflection on contemporary themes such as inclusivity and the general sense of transition and disorientation. Society struggles to accept bodies…
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Algorithmic Knitting Design
Stephanie Pan Textile art | 2022-ongoing Algorithmic Knitting Design is a project integrating fashion design, knitting and algorithmic thinking into the development of a large collection of handknitting patterns for wearable attire, accessories, and homeware available to general public. With this project Stephanie Pan is developing a growing collection of knitwear patterns that incorporate algorithmic computing…
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Modern Body Laboratory #3: PORTALS
Modern Body platform Performative Exhibition | 2021 Modern Body Laboratory #3: PORTALS is the 3rd edition of our laboratory series. It presents new intermedia performances and installations that open portals to different worlds, offering new perspectives to our surroundings. Curatorial Statement For more than a year we have been balancing on a threshold, at the…
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An Absurdist Archive of Isolation: a full body workout radio play
They Gather Participatory performance | 2021 This first-person performance/radio play is a genre-blurring 26-minute trip offering a deep dive into our relationship with time and the freedom of isolation. The piece unfolds and transforms your domestic environment through music, text and your movement, turning it into the setting of a multisensory experience. The narrator guides…
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The Impossibility of Invisibility
Stelios Manousakis Transdisciplinary theatrical music performance “Technology doesn’t just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.” Sherry Turkle, The Documented Life, 2013 Context The Impossibility of Invisibility is a multifaceted, transdisciplinary, speculative project exploring the emerging field of WiFi sensing: a nascent, barely…
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ORITO and KUKA / THEY WHO REBUILD
Ulrike Quade, Lisenka Heijboer Castañón, Stephanie Pan Transdisciplinary Opera | in development IN DEVELOPMENT The story The world has ended. The only survivors are ORITO, a hyper-realistic Bunraku puppet, and KUKA, an industrial robot. Apparently, without memories or context, they attempt to construct a new reality. They search for meaning in a ruined world where…
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Endosymbiont Hypothesis
Marc Alberto, Floris van Bergeijk, Lynn Cassiers, Ji Youn Kang, Stelios Manousakis, Stephanie Pan Hybrid music performance | 2025 The Endosymbiont Hypothesis is a music performance project that transcends boundaries and expectations to create a new, truly contemporary musical idiom. The performances of this collective of six leading musicians/composers irreverently combine, juxtapose, weave through and…
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Network Parasites (Hertzian Field #4)
Stelios Manousakis Lecture Performance | 2024 Network Parasites (Hertzian Field #4) is an augmented reality lecture performance on ‘parasitic sensing’: past, future, and present. Our hyper-connected lifestyle has flooded our spaces with oceans of radio waves and microwaves. While invisible, these waves are as real as the air we breathe. And while we lack the capacity to feel…
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The Art of Doing Nothing: a feminist manifesto
Stephanie Pan, with Ensemble Klang Theatrical Music Performance | 2024 The Art of Doing Nothing: a feminist manifesto is about listening to yourself and the world around you. About saving power to explode with power. It is not about doing nothing. It is a proposal for navigating choice and making sense of your own place in…
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Re-Imagining Opera
Marc Alberto, Floris van Bergeijk, Lynn Cassiers, Ji Youn Kang, Stelios Manousakis, Stephanie Pan Hybrid music performance | 2023 What can the word ‘opera’ mean in the 21st century and how is it relevant? Forging a collaboration between V2_Klub and Opera Forward Festival from the National Opera, Re-Imagining Opera explores the notion of opera from unexpected perspectives casting…
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Faun
Giacomo Della Marina Dance performance | 2022 Giacomo della Marina takes a turning point in dance history, Nijinksi’s famous solo ‘L’apres midi d’un Faun’ from 1912, as the starting point for an original and sensory reflection on contemporary themes such as inclusivity and the general sense of transition and disorientation. Society struggles to accept bodies…
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Algorithmic Knitting Design
Stephanie Pan Textile art | 2022-ongoing Algorithmic Knitting Design is a project integrating fashion design, knitting and algorithmic thinking into the development of a large collection of handknitting patterns for wearable attire, accessories, and homeware available to general public. With this project Stephanie Pan is developing a growing collection of knitwear patterns that incorporate algorithmic computing…
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Modern Body Laboratory #3: PORTALS
Modern Body platform Performative Exhibition | 2021 Modern Body Laboratory #3: PORTALS is the 3rd edition of our laboratory series. It presents new intermedia performances and installations that open portals to different worlds, offering new perspectives to our surroundings. Curatorial Statement For more than a year we have been balancing on a threshold, at the…
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An Absurdist Archive of Isolation: a full body workout radio play
They Gather Participatory performance | 2021 This first-person performance/radio play is a genre-blurring 26-minute trip offering a deep dive into our relationship with time and the freedom of isolation. The piece unfolds and transforms your domestic environment through music, text and your movement, turning it into the setting of a multisensory experience. The narrator guides…
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The Impossibility of Invisibility
Stelios Manousakis Transdisciplinary theatrical music performance “Technology doesn’t just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.” Sherry Turkle, The Documented Life, 2013 Context The Impossibility of Invisibility is a multifaceted, transdisciplinary, speculative project exploring the emerging field of WiFi sensing: a nascent, barely…
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ORITO and KUKA / THEY WHO REBUILD
Ulrike Quade, Lisenka Heijboer Castañón, Stephanie Pan Transdisciplinary Opera | in development IN DEVELOPMENT The story The world has ended. The only survivors are ORITO, a hyper-realistic Bunraku puppet, and KUKA, an industrial robot. Apparently, without memories or context, they attempt to construct a new reality. They search for meaning in a ruined world where…
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Endosymbiont Hypothesis
Marc Alberto, Floris van Bergeijk, Lynn Cassiers, Ji Youn Kang, Stelios Manousakis, Stephanie Pan Hybrid music performance | 2025 The Endosymbiont Hypothesis is a music performance project that transcends boundaries and expectations to create a new, truly contemporary musical idiom. The performances of this collective of six leading musicians/composers irreverently combine, juxtapose, weave through and…
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Network Parasites (Hertzian Field #4)
Stelios Manousakis Lecture Performance | 2024 Network Parasites (Hertzian Field #4) is an augmented reality lecture performance on ‘parasitic sensing’: past, future, and present. Our hyper-connected lifestyle has flooded our spaces with oceans of radio waves and microwaves. While invisible, these waves are as real as the air we breathe. And while we lack the capacity to feel…
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The Art of Doing Nothing: a feminist manifesto
Stephanie Pan, with Ensemble Klang Theatrical Music Performance | 2024 The Art of Doing Nothing: a feminist manifesto is about listening to yourself and the world around you. About saving power to explode with power. It is not about doing nothing. It is a proposal for navigating choice and making sense of your own place in…
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Re-Imagining Opera
Marc Alberto, Floris van Bergeijk, Lynn Cassiers, Ji Youn Kang, Stelios Manousakis, Stephanie Pan Hybrid music performance | 2023 What can the word ‘opera’ mean in the 21st century and how is it relevant? Forging a collaboration between V2_Klub and Opera Forward Festival from the National Opera, Re-Imagining Opera explores the notion of opera from unexpected perspectives casting…
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Faun
Giacomo Della Marina Dance performance | 2022 Giacomo della Marina takes a turning point in dance history, Nijinksi’s famous solo ‘L’apres midi d’un Faun’ from 1912, as the starting point for an original and sensory reflection on contemporary themes such as inclusivity and the general sense of transition and disorientation. Society struggles to accept bodies…
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Algorithmic Knitting Design
Stephanie Pan Textile art | 2022-ongoing Algorithmic Knitting Design is a project integrating fashion design, knitting and algorithmic thinking into the development of a large collection of handknitting patterns for wearable attire, accessories, and homeware available to general public. With this project Stephanie Pan is developing a growing collection of knitwear patterns that incorporate algorithmic computing…
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Modern Body Laboratory #3: PORTALS
Modern Body platform Performative Exhibition | 2021 Modern Body Laboratory #3: PORTALS is the 3rd edition of our laboratory series. It presents new intermedia performances and installations that open portals to different worlds, offering new perspectives to our surroundings. Curatorial Statement For more than a year we have been balancing on a threshold, at the…
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An Absurdist Archive of Isolation: a full body workout radio play
They Gather Participatory performance | 2021 This first-person performance/radio play is a genre-blurring 26-minute trip offering a deep dive into our relationship with time and the freedom of isolation. The piece unfolds and transforms your domestic environment through music, text and your movement, turning it into the setting of a multisensory experience. The narrator guides…
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The Impossibility of Invisibility
Stelios Manousakis Transdisciplinary theatrical music performance “Technology doesn’t just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.” Sherry Turkle, The Documented Life, 2013 Context The Impossibility of Invisibility is a multifaceted, transdisciplinary, speculative project exploring the emerging field of WiFi sensing: a nascent, barely…
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ORITO and KUKA / THEY WHO REBUILD
Ulrike Quade, Lisenka Heijboer Castañón, Stephanie Pan Transdisciplinary Opera | in development IN DEVELOPMENT The story The world has ended. The only survivors are ORITO, a hyper-realistic Bunraku puppet, and KUKA, an industrial robot. Apparently, without memories or context, they attempt to construct a new reality. They search for meaning in a ruined world where…
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Endosymbiont Hypothesis
Marc Alberto, Floris van Bergeijk, Lynn Cassiers, Ji Youn Kang, Stelios Manousakis, Stephanie Pan Hybrid music performance | 2025 The Endosymbiont Hypothesis is a music performance project that transcends boundaries and expectations to create a new, truly contemporary musical idiom. The performances of this collective of six leading musicians/composers irreverently combine, juxtapose, weave through and…
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Network Parasites (Hertzian Field #4)
Stelios Manousakis Lecture Performance | 2024 Network Parasites (Hertzian Field #4) is an augmented reality lecture performance on ‘parasitic sensing’: past, future, and present. Our hyper-connected lifestyle has flooded our spaces with oceans of radio waves and microwaves. While invisible, these waves are as real as the air we breathe. And while we lack the capacity to feel…
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The Art of Doing Nothing: a feminist manifesto
Stephanie Pan, with Ensemble Klang Theatrical Music Performance | 2024 The Art of Doing Nothing: a feminist manifesto is about listening to yourself and the world around you. About saving power to explode with power. It is not about doing nothing. It is a proposal for navigating choice and making sense of your own place in…
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Re-Imagining Opera
Marc Alberto, Floris van Bergeijk, Lynn Cassiers, Ji Youn Kang, Stelios Manousakis, Stephanie Pan Hybrid music performance | 2023 What can the word ‘opera’ mean in the 21st century and how is it relevant? Forging a collaboration between V2_Klub and Opera Forward Festival from the National Opera, Re-Imagining Opera explores the notion of opera from unexpected perspectives casting…
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Faun
Giacomo Della Marina Dance performance | 2022 Giacomo della Marina takes a turning point in dance history, Nijinksi’s famous solo ‘L’apres midi d’un Faun’ from 1912, as the starting point for an original and sensory reflection on contemporary themes such as inclusivity and the general sense of transition and disorientation. Society struggles to accept bodies…
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Algorithmic Knitting Design
Stephanie Pan Textile art | 2022-ongoing Algorithmic Knitting Design is a project integrating fashion design, knitting and algorithmic thinking into the development of a large collection of handknitting patterns for wearable attire, accessories, and homeware available to general public. With this project Stephanie Pan is developing a growing collection of knitwear patterns that incorporate algorithmic computing…
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Modern Body Laboratory #3: PORTALS
Modern Body platform Performative Exhibition | 2021 Modern Body Laboratory #3: PORTALS is the 3rd edition of our laboratory series. It presents new intermedia performances and installations that open portals to different worlds, offering new perspectives to our surroundings. Curatorial Statement For more than a year we have been balancing on a threshold, at the…
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An Absurdist Archive of Isolation: a full body workout radio play
They Gather Participatory performance | 2021 This first-person performance/radio play is a genre-blurring 26-minute trip offering a deep dive into our relationship with time and the freedom of isolation. The piece unfolds and transforms your domestic environment through music, text and your movement, turning it into the setting of a multisensory experience. The narrator guides…
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The Impossibility of Invisibility
Stelios Manousakis Transdisciplinary theatrical music performance “Technology doesn’t just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.” Sherry Turkle, The Documented Life, 2013 Context The Impossibility of Invisibility is a multifaceted, transdisciplinary, speculative project exploring the emerging field of WiFi sensing: a nascent, barely…
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ORITO and KUKA / THEY WHO REBUILD
Ulrike Quade, Lisenka Heijboer Castañón, Stephanie Pan Transdisciplinary Opera | in development IN DEVELOPMENT The story The world has ended. The only survivors are ORITO, a hyper-realistic Bunraku puppet, and KUKA, an industrial robot. Apparently, without memories or context, they attempt to construct a new reality. They search for meaning in a ruined world where…
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Endosymbiont Hypothesis
Marc Alberto, Floris van Bergeijk, Lynn Cassiers, Ji Youn Kang, Stelios Manousakis, Stephanie Pan Hybrid music performance | 2025 The Endosymbiont Hypothesis is a music performance project that transcends boundaries and expectations to create a new, truly contemporary musical idiom. The performances of this collective of six leading musicians/composers irreverently combine, juxtapose, weave through and…
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Network Parasites (Hertzian Field #4)
Stelios Manousakis Lecture Performance | 2024 Network Parasites (Hertzian Field #4) is an augmented reality lecture performance on ‘parasitic sensing’: past, future, and present. Our hyper-connected lifestyle has flooded our spaces with oceans of radio waves and microwaves. While invisible, these waves are as real as the air we breathe. And while we lack the capacity to feel…
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The Art of Doing Nothing: a feminist manifesto
Stephanie Pan, with Ensemble Klang Theatrical Music Performance | 2024 The Art of Doing Nothing: a feminist manifesto is about listening to yourself and the world around you. About saving power to explode with power. It is not about doing nothing. It is a proposal for navigating choice and making sense of your own place in…
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Re-Imagining Opera
Marc Alberto, Floris van Bergeijk, Lynn Cassiers, Ji Youn Kang, Stelios Manousakis, Stephanie Pan Hybrid music performance | 2023 What can the word ‘opera’ mean in the 21st century and how is it relevant? Forging a collaboration between V2_Klub and Opera Forward Festival from the National Opera, Re-Imagining Opera explores the notion of opera from unexpected perspectives casting…
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Faun
Giacomo Della Marina Dance performance | 2022 Giacomo della Marina takes a turning point in dance history, Nijinksi’s famous solo ‘L’apres midi d’un Faun’ from 1912, as the starting point for an original and sensory reflection on contemporary themes such as inclusivity and the general sense of transition and disorientation. Society struggles to accept bodies…
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Algorithmic Knitting Design
Stephanie Pan Textile art | 2022-ongoing Algorithmic Knitting Design is a project integrating fashion design, knitting and algorithmic thinking into the development of a large collection of handknitting patterns for wearable attire, accessories, and homeware available to general public. With this project Stephanie Pan is developing a growing collection of knitwear patterns that incorporate algorithmic computing…
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Modern Body Laboratory #3: PORTALS
Modern Body platform Performative Exhibition | 2021 Modern Body Laboratory #3: PORTALS is the 3rd edition of our laboratory series. It presents new intermedia performances and installations that open portals to different worlds, offering new perspectives to our surroundings. Curatorial Statement For more than a year we have been balancing on a threshold, at the…
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An Absurdist Archive of Isolation: a full body workout radio play
They Gather Participatory performance | 2021 This first-person performance/radio play is a genre-blurring 26-minute trip offering a deep dive into our relationship with time and the freedom of isolation. The piece unfolds and transforms your domestic environment through music, text and your movement, turning it into the setting of a multisensory experience. The narrator guides…
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The Impossibility of Invisibility
Stelios Manousakis Transdisciplinary theatrical music performance “Technology doesn’t just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.” Sherry Turkle, The Documented Life, 2013 Context The Impossibility of Invisibility is a multifaceted, transdisciplinary, speculative project exploring the emerging field of WiFi sensing: a nascent, barely…
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ORITO and KUKA / THEY WHO REBUILD
Ulrike Quade, Lisenka Heijboer Castañón, Stephanie Pan Transdisciplinary Opera | in development IN DEVELOPMENT The story The world has ended. The only survivors are ORITO, a hyper-realistic Bunraku puppet, and KUKA, an industrial robot. Apparently, without memories or context, they attempt to construct a new reality. They search for meaning in a ruined world where…
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Endosymbiont Hypothesis
Marc Alberto, Floris van Bergeijk, Lynn Cassiers, Ji Youn Kang, Stelios Manousakis, Stephanie Pan Hybrid music performance | 2025 The Endosymbiont Hypothesis is a music performance project that transcends boundaries and expectations to create a new, truly contemporary musical idiom. The performances of this collective of six leading musicians/composers irreverently combine, juxtapose, weave through and…
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Network Parasites (Hertzian Field #4)
Stelios Manousakis Lecture Performance | 2024 Network Parasites (Hertzian Field #4) is an augmented reality lecture performance on ‘parasitic sensing’: past, future, and present. Our hyper-connected lifestyle has flooded our spaces with oceans of radio waves and microwaves. While invisible, these waves are as real as the air we breathe. And while we lack the capacity to feel…
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The Art of Doing Nothing: a feminist manifesto
Stephanie Pan, with Ensemble Klang Theatrical Music Performance | 2024 The Art of Doing Nothing: a feminist manifesto is about listening to yourself and the world around you. About saving power to explode with power. It is not about doing nothing. It is a proposal for navigating choice and making sense of your own place in…
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Re-Imagining Opera
Marc Alberto, Floris van Bergeijk, Lynn Cassiers, Ji Youn Kang, Stelios Manousakis, Stephanie Pan Hybrid music performance | 2023 What can the word ‘opera’ mean in the 21st century and how is it relevant? Forging a collaboration between V2_Klub and Opera Forward Festival from the National Opera, Re-Imagining Opera explores the notion of opera from unexpected perspectives casting…
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Faun
Giacomo Della Marina Dance performance | 2022 Giacomo della Marina takes a turning point in dance history, Nijinksi’s famous solo ‘L’apres midi d’un Faun’ from 1912, as the starting point for an original and sensory reflection on contemporary themes such as inclusivity and the general sense of transition and disorientation. Society struggles to accept bodies…
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Algorithmic Knitting Design
Stephanie Pan Textile art | 2022-ongoing Algorithmic Knitting Design is a project integrating fashion design, knitting and algorithmic thinking into the development of a large collection of handknitting patterns for wearable attire, accessories, and homeware available to general public. With this project Stephanie Pan is developing a growing collection of knitwear patterns that incorporate algorithmic computing…
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Modern Body Laboratory #3: PORTALS
Modern Body platform Performative Exhibition | 2021 Modern Body Laboratory #3: PORTALS is the 3rd edition of our laboratory series. It presents new intermedia performances and installations that open portals to different worlds, offering new perspectives to our surroundings. Curatorial Statement For more than a year we have been balancing on a threshold, at the…
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An Absurdist Archive of Isolation: a full body workout radio play
They Gather Participatory performance | 2021 This first-person performance/radio play is a genre-blurring 26-minute trip offering a deep dive into our relationship with time and the freedom of isolation. The piece unfolds and transforms your domestic environment through music, text and your movement, turning it into the setting of a multisensory experience. The narrator guides…
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The Impossibility of Invisibility
Stelios Manousakis Transdisciplinary theatrical music performance “Technology doesn’t just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.” Sherry Turkle, The Documented Life, 2013 Context The Impossibility of Invisibility is a multifaceted, transdisciplinary, speculative project exploring the emerging field of WiFi sensing: a nascent, barely…
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ORITO and KUKA / THEY WHO REBUILD
Ulrike Quade, Lisenka Heijboer Castañón, Stephanie Pan Transdisciplinary Opera | in development IN DEVELOPMENT The story The world has ended. The only survivors are ORITO, a hyper-realistic Bunraku puppet, and KUKA, an industrial robot. Apparently, without memories or context, they attempt to construct a new reality. They search for meaning in a ruined world where…
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Endosymbiont Hypothesis
Marc Alberto, Floris van Bergeijk, Lynn Cassiers, Ji Youn Kang, Stelios Manousakis, Stephanie Pan Hybrid music performance | 2025 The Endosymbiont Hypothesis is a music performance project that transcends boundaries and expectations to create a new, truly contemporary musical idiom. The performances of this collective of six leading musicians/composers irreverently combine, juxtapose, weave through and…
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Network Parasites (Hertzian Field #4)
Stelios Manousakis Lecture Performance | 2024 Network Parasites (Hertzian Field #4) is an augmented reality lecture performance on ‘parasitic sensing’: past, future, and present. Our hyper-connected lifestyle has flooded our spaces with oceans of radio waves and microwaves. While invisible, these waves are as real as the air we breathe. And while we lack the capacity to feel…
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The Art of Doing Nothing: a feminist manifesto
Stephanie Pan, with Ensemble Klang Theatrical Music Performance | 2024 The Art of Doing Nothing: a feminist manifesto is about listening to yourself and the world around you. About saving power to explode with power. It is not about doing nothing. It is a proposal for navigating choice and making sense of your own place in…
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Re-Imagining Opera
Marc Alberto, Floris van Bergeijk, Lynn Cassiers, Ji Youn Kang, Stelios Manousakis, Stephanie Pan Hybrid music performance | 2023 What can the word ‘opera’ mean in the 21st century and how is it relevant? Forging a collaboration between V2_Klub and Opera Forward Festival from the National Opera, Re-Imagining Opera explores the notion of opera from unexpected perspectives casting…
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Faun
Giacomo Della Marina Dance performance | 2022 Giacomo della Marina takes a turning point in dance history, Nijinksi’s famous solo ‘L’apres midi d’un Faun’ from 1912, as the starting point for an original and sensory reflection on contemporary themes such as inclusivity and the general sense of transition and disorientation. Society struggles to accept bodies…
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Algorithmic Knitting Design
Stephanie Pan Textile art | 2022-ongoing Algorithmic Knitting Design is a project integrating fashion design, knitting and algorithmic thinking into the development of a large collection of handknitting patterns for wearable attire, accessories, and homeware available to general public. With this project Stephanie Pan is developing a growing collection of knitwear patterns that incorporate algorithmic computing…
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Modern Body Laboratory #3: PORTALS
Modern Body platform Performative Exhibition | 2021 Modern Body Laboratory #3: PORTALS is the 3rd edition of our laboratory series. It presents new intermedia performances and installations that open portals to different worlds, offering new perspectives to our surroundings. Curatorial Statement For more than a year we have been balancing on a threshold, at the…
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An Absurdist Archive of Isolation: a full body workout radio play
They Gather Participatory performance | 2021 This first-person performance/radio play is a genre-blurring 26-minute trip offering a deep dive into our relationship with time and the freedom of isolation. The piece unfolds and transforms your domestic environment through music, text and your movement, turning it into the setting of a multisensory experience. The narrator guides…
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The Impossibility of Invisibility
Stelios Manousakis Transdisciplinary theatrical music performance “Technology doesn’t just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.” Sherry Turkle, The Documented Life, 2013 Context The Impossibility of Invisibility is a multifaceted, transdisciplinary, speculative project exploring the emerging field of WiFi sensing: a nascent, barely…
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ORITO and KUKA / THEY WHO REBUILD
Ulrike Quade, Lisenka Heijboer Castañón, Stephanie Pan Transdisciplinary Opera | in development IN DEVELOPMENT The story The world has ended. The only survivors are ORITO, a hyper-realistic Bunraku puppet, and KUKA, an industrial robot. Apparently, without memories or context, they attempt to construct a new reality. They search for meaning in a ruined world where…
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Endosymbiont Hypothesis
Marc Alberto, Floris van Bergeijk, Lynn Cassiers, Ji Youn Kang, Stelios Manousakis, Stephanie Pan Hybrid music performance | 2025 The Endosymbiont Hypothesis is a music performance project that transcends boundaries and expectations to create a new, truly contemporary musical idiom. The performances of this collective of six leading musicians/composers irreverently combine, juxtapose, weave through and…
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Network Parasites (Hertzian Field #4)
Stelios Manousakis Lecture Performance | 2024 Network Parasites (Hertzian Field #4) is an augmented reality lecture performance on ‘parasitic sensing’: past, future, and present. Our hyper-connected lifestyle has flooded our spaces with oceans of radio waves and microwaves. While invisible, these waves are as real as the air we breathe. And while we lack the capacity to feel…
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The Art of Doing Nothing: a feminist manifesto
Stephanie Pan, with Ensemble Klang Theatrical Music Performance | 2024 The Art of Doing Nothing: a feminist manifesto is about listening to yourself and the world around you. About saving power to explode with power. It is not about doing nothing. It is a proposal for navigating choice and making sense of your own place in…
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Re-Imagining Opera
Marc Alberto, Floris van Bergeijk, Lynn Cassiers, Ji Youn Kang, Stelios Manousakis, Stephanie Pan Hybrid music performance | 2023 What can the word ‘opera’ mean in the 21st century and how is it relevant? Forging a collaboration between V2_Klub and Opera Forward Festival from the National Opera, Re-Imagining Opera explores the notion of opera from unexpected perspectives casting…
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Faun
Giacomo Della Marina Dance performance | 2022 Giacomo della Marina takes a turning point in dance history, Nijinksi’s famous solo ‘L’apres midi d’un Faun’ from 1912, as the starting point for an original and sensory reflection on contemporary themes such as inclusivity and the general sense of transition and disorientation. Society struggles to accept bodies…
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Algorithmic Knitting Design
Stephanie Pan Textile art | 2022-ongoing Algorithmic Knitting Design is a project integrating fashion design, knitting and algorithmic thinking into the development of a large collection of handknitting patterns for wearable attire, accessories, and homeware available to general public. With this project Stephanie Pan is developing a growing collection of knitwear patterns that incorporate algorithmic computing…
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Modern Body Laboratory #3: PORTALS
Modern Body platform Performative Exhibition | 2021 Modern Body Laboratory #3: PORTALS is the 3rd edition of our laboratory series. It presents new intermedia performances and installations that open portals to different worlds, offering new perspectives to our surroundings. Curatorial Statement For more than a year we have been balancing on a threshold, at the…
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An Absurdist Archive of Isolation: a full body workout radio play
They Gather Participatory performance | 2021 This first-person performance/radio play is a genre-blurring 26-minute trip offering a deep dive into our relationship with time and the freedom of isolation. The piece unfolds and transforms your domestic environment through music, text and your movement, turning it into the setting of a multisensory experience. The narrator guides…
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The Impossibility of Invisibility
Stelios Manousakis Transdisciplinary theatrical music performance “Technology doesn’t just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.” Sherry Turkle, The Documented Life, 2013 Context The Impossibility of Invisibility is a multifaceted, transdisciplinary, speculative project exploring the emerging field of WiFi sensing: a nascent, barely…
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ORITO and KUKA / THEY WHO REBUILD
Ulrike Quade, Lisenka Heijboer Castañón, Stephanie Pan Transdisciplinary Opera | in development IN DEVELOPMENT The story The world has ended. The only survivors are ORITO, a hyper-realistic Bunraku puppet, and KUKA, an industrial robot. Apparently, without memories or context, they attempt to construct a new reality. They search for meaning in a ruined world where…
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Endosymbiont Hypothesis
Marc Alberto, Floris van Bergeijk, Lynn Cassiers, Ji Youn Kang, Stelios Manousakis, Stephanie Pan Hybrid music performance | 2025 The Endosymbiont Hypothesis is a music performance project that transcends boundaries and expectations to create a new, truly contemporary musical idiom. The performances of this collective of six leading musicians/composers irreverently combine, juxtapose, weave through and…
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Network Parasites (Hertzian Field #4)
Stelios Manousakis Lecture Performance | 2024 Network Parasites (Hertzian Field #4) is an augmented reality lecture performance on ‘parasitic sensing’: past, future, and present. Our hyper-connected lifestyle has flooded our spaces with oceans of radio waves and microwaves. While invisible, these waves are as real as the air we breathe. And while we lack the capacity to feel…
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The Art of Doing Nothing: a feminist manifesto
Stephanie Pan, with Ensemble Klang Theatrical Music Performance | 2024 The Art of Doing Nothing: a feminist manifesto is about listening to yourself and the world around you. About saving power to explode with power. It is not about doing nothing. It is a proposal for navigating choice and making sense of your own place in…
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Re-Imagining Opera
Marc Alberto, Floris van Bergeijk, Lynn Cassiers, Ji Youn Kang, Stelios Manousakis, Stephanie Pan Hybrid music performance | 2023 What can the word ‘opera’ mean in the 21st century and how is it relevant? Forging a collaboration between V2_Klub and Opera Forward Festival from the National Opera, Re-Imagining Opera explores the notion of opera from unexpected perspectives casting…
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Faun
Giacomo Della Marina Dance performance | 2022 Giacomo della Marina takes a turning point in dance history, Nijinksi’s famous solo ‘L’apres midi d’un Faun’ from 1912, as the starting point for an original and sensory reflection on contemporary themes such as inclusivity and the general sense of transition and disorientation. Society struggles to accept bodies…
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Algorithmic Knitting Design
Stephanie Pan Textile art | 2022-ongoing Algorithmic Knitting Design is a project integrating fashion design, knitting and algorithmic thinking into the development of a large collection of handknitting patterns for wearable attire, accessories, and homeware available to general public. With this project Stephanie Pan is developing a growing collection of knitwear patterns that incorporate algorithmic computing…
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Modern Body Laboratory #3: PORTALS
Modern Body platform Performative Exhibition | 2021 Modern Body Laboratory #3: PORTALS is the 3rd edition of our laboratory series. It presents new intermedia performances and installations that open portals to different worlds, offering new perspectives to our surroundings. Curatorial Statement For more than a year we have been balancing on a threshold, at the…
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An Absurdist Archive of Isolation: a full body workout radio play
They Gather Participatory performance | 2021 This first-person performance/radio play is a genre-blurring 26-minute trip offering a deep dive into our relationship with time and the freedom of isolation. The piece unfolds and transforms your domestic environment through music, text and your movement, turning it into the setting of a multisensory experience. The narrator guides…
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