The work brings up questions of new animism, translocality, and why it is so important to leave behind the outdated notion of human exceptionalism.
The piece is played in real-time through core characters, many of which are public participants selected via open call. These participants took part in a workshop to develop their new identities and collectively, through guidance, generate methods to perform their companionship species. The audience also had the ability to interact as a character or feed data sets into the gamemaster, which were played over the piece and responded to accordingly in real-time. This layer of the work explores human computer interaction, online communities (avatar, echo chambers, self), and information structures and theory.
Commissioned as part of the CTM Radio Lab, led by CTM Festival and Deutschlandfunk Kultur – Radio Art / Klangkunst in collaboration with Goethe-Institut, ORF musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst, Ö1 Kunstradio, and The Wire magazine.