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AR Loopmachine - augmented Reality, dance, archive and future

Since 2019, Nico and the Navigators and Yui Kawaguchi have been pushing the boundaries of reality and imagination, exploring the limits and possibilities of expanded perception with the AR_Loopmachine. The installation creates intermediate worlds - fragile landscapes in which reality seems to be renegotiated and dance, movement and digital projections enter into a timeless symbiosis. But soon, on 01.01.2025, this journey comes to an abrupt end: the security servers in the USA are switched off and the hardware (Magicleap 1 glasses) falls silent. What remains are traces that carry the work into the future, a digital afterglow that is present but no longer visible.

In a two-week installation, we bid farewell and invite reflection: How can artistic works and digital worlds endure independently of economic interests and technological change? How do we create digital archives that enable us to look to a future beyond ephemeral hardware? The space between man and machine becomes a mirror of our own transience.

A production by Nico and the Navigators
in cooperation with International Theatre Institute Germany // Mediathek for dance and theater  and Dachverband Tanz Deutschland