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Cyborg Rituals, Bains Numériques #11 – Lola Rossi, Kris Hastings, 2024

CYBORG RITUALS.

year 2024 • immersive installation

Cyborg rituals invites you to experience a ceremony orchestrated by an AI, simultaneously performed via video conference by two artists: Lola Rossi and Kris Hastings. This ritual is designed to invoke a digital entity through a ceremony developed from an algorithm enriched with data on cultural rituals from Norse mythology and 19th-century French occultism.

New types of rituals are emerging in our modern lives: guided meditation, virtual ceremonies, online spiritual retreats, digital funerals... These rituals provide important spaces for expressing community bonds and creating inclusive, activist, and fluid environments. Cyborg Rituals presents a performance by two artists who submit to the directives of an artificial intelligence. The artists' bodies become avatars, inputs, and interfacial entities, questioning the control we exert—or relinquish. Do we experience a genuine "spiritual elevation," or is it an artificial imitation crafted by algorithms?

Throughout the performance, projections appear at multiple levels above the audience, resembling aggressive pop-ups reminiscent of net.art aesthetics. These intensify as the invocation of a "superior digital entity" progresses. The two artists, who have never met, aim to create and generate a new space for communication and exploration of the tensions between our emotions, intuitions, and non-human elements. The AI becomes a mediator, guide, and tool, enabling the transcendence of ancient practices to propose fluid, fragmented, and multifaceted approaches better suited to our post-modern cyborg identities.

The project was realized as part of the 2024 season of the City2City initiative, with the support of the Centre des Arts d'Enghien-les-Bains, a scene designated for Art and Creation, and the UNESCO Creative Cities network.

En collaboration avec Kris Hastings
Scenography : Vera Granger

Cyborg Rituals, Bains Numériques #11 – Lola Rossi, Kris Hastings, 2024