Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou & Huntrezz Janos
In DENTAXUVIA Chapter 1: Corporeal Conversations, the player is transported into virtual embodiments of the artists, Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou and Huntrezz Janos trapped in a post-apocalyptic landscape. How did we get here? Which are our real bodies? What is happening to the boundaries of our physical, virtual, mental, and spiritual realities? How can we escape this dystopia? These questions invite players into complex dialogues about subjectivity and embodiment in a world where traditional boundaries have been blurred or dissolved. Starting with more questions than answers, players encounter numerous intelligences that occupy this trans-corporeal wasteland. Fires that learn as they burn, hypercute-comrade cockroaches who yearn for affection and know the deepest secrets of the landscape, and a multitude of alternate selves from different dimensions- like a little “alien” Antigoni, and a Huntrezz-Butterfly (among many others!) who are all there to help you explore the space, and maybe even help you escape it, through interspecies collaboration, and the power of queer love.
Merging performance, XR technologies, video game design, and queer ecologies, the project embraces non-linear and fluid notions of subjectivity, embodiment, time, and co-existence. The concept of elemental materiality is central to the work, moving beyond human-centered knowledge to explore the wisdom and agency of the elements themselves who share the secrets of the world. By blending the physical and digital, human and non-human, past and future, Dentaxuvia offers a speculative space for reimagining how we live, love, and survive in a post-apocalyptic times.. Through play and performance, it encourages us to rethink the boundaries of ourselves, opening up new possibilities for queer futurity and interspecies collective survival.
Music by Lykourgos Porfyris
Supported by Onassis ONX and TRANSFER Gallery
Currently exhibited at TELEMATIC Media Arts San Frascisco, Co-presented by Transfer Gallery