LORECORE v2
Even in our sleep, we transmit data. We are surrounded by systems that count us, catalogue us, compare us, and compute us. Algorithmic oracles promise security and deliver control. But what myths surround these systems?
The performance “LORECORE” is a live-generated video essay brought to life by three performers and a robotic cat. It explores the logic and mechanisms of technofascism. What kinds of synergies emerge from the growing proximity between the tech industry and the New Right?
“LORECORE” descends into the darker depths of myth-making around U.S. tech companies. We gather to witness the fading dreams of the old internet and the rise of technofascism. The video essay peers into the reflective interfaces that surround us everywhere, revealing what is not even hidden.
The Berlin-based artist Anan Fries and their team reveal links between economic and political power. At the same time, they move through the mystical stories that the Silicon Valley scene creates about itself.
The title “LORECORE” refers to the ever-present self-staging of Big Tech entrepreneurs as kings of a future authoritarian world. The writer Shumon Basar describes this kind of self-presentation as a trait of contemporary society in a time of overlapping crises. By stating that we live in an era “that belongs to digital capitalism and is marked by the existential need of people to stage themselves while global narratives collapse in unprecedented ways,” he coined the term.
Künstlerische Leitung: Anan Fries / Recherche & Konzept: Jette Büchsenschütz, Anan Fries, Cenk Güzelis / Performance: Ronald Alonso Berger, Emil Ertl, Elvan Tekin / XR-Design: Me AndOther Me / Dramaturgie: Jette Büchsenschütz / Komposition, Sounddesign: Ricardo Eizirik / auto_timer / Kostüme: Freya Herrmann / Kostümassistenz: Melissa Hebold / Lichtdesign: Simona Bieksaite / Zusätzlicher Text: Morgane Billuart / Produktionsleitung: Sina Kießling / Produktionsassistenz: Hannah Borghese / Dank an: Payal Arora, Maik Fielitz, Ana Teixera Pinto, Paul Feigelfeld, Cornelia Sollfrank, Jee Chan, Lemohang Mosese
The performance “LORECORE” is a live-generated video essay brought to life by three performers and a robotic cat. It explores the logic and mechanisms of technofascism. What kinds of synergies emerge from the growing proximity between the tech industry and the New Right?
“LORECORE” descends into the darker depths of myth-making around U.S. tech companies. We gather to witness the fading dreams of the old internet and the rise of technofascism. The video essay peers into the reflective interfaces that surround us everywhere, revealing what is not even hidden.
The Berlin-based artist Anan Fries and their team reveal links between economic and political power. At the same time, they move through the mystical stories that the Silicon Valley scene creates about itself.
The title “LORECORE” refers to the ever-present self-staging of Big Tech entrepreneurs as kings of a future authoritarian world. The writer Shumon Basar describes this kind of self-presentation as a trait of contemporary society in a time of overlapping crises. By stating that we live in an era “that belongs to digital capitalism and is marked by the existential need of people to stage themselves while global narratives collapse in unprecedented ways,” he coined the term.
Team
Künstlerische Leitung: Anan Fries / Recherche & Konzept: Jette Büchsenschütz, Anan Fries, Cenk Güzelis / Performance: Ronald Alonso Berger, Emil Ertl, Elvan Tekin / XR-Design: Me AndOther Me / Dramaturgie: Jette Büchsenschütz / Komposition, Sounddesign: Ricardo Eizirik / auto_timer / Kostüme: Freya Herrmann / Kostümassistenz: Melissa Hebold / Lichtdesign: Simona Bieksaite / Zusätzlicher Text: Morgane Billuart / Produktionsleitung: Sina Kießling / Produktionsassistenz: Hannah Borghese / Dank an: Payal Arora, Maik Fielitz, Ana Teixera Pinto, Paul Feigelfeld, Cornelia Sollfrank, Jee Chan, Lemohang Mosese