New production of Velimir Khlebnikov’s visionary Futurist theatre work
ZANGEZI is a radical, multimedia reinterpretation of Velimir Khlebnikov's visionary, planetary sound-based dramatic poem from 1922. The production explores central questions of our time: the tension between humans and nature, the power of language, and war and conflict as drivers of historical change. Under the artistic direction of media artist and Immersive Arts Space (Zurich University of the Arts) director Chris Salter, and in collaboration with an international team of renowned creators from the fields of music, visual arts, AI, performance, and technology, a spectacular live media performance unfolds where spatialized sound, light, music, graphics, and AI-influenced scenography generated by a game engine merge with intense, physical acting. A central element of ZANGEZI is a monumental LED wall that functions as a visual and lighting device. AI-supported technologies with game engine create new digital visual and acoustic landscapes, which bring art, technology, and narrative together in what Khlebnikov called a “supersaga.”
TEAM
INTERNATIONAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTISTIC/TECHNICAL TEAM
Zangezi is created by a culturally diverse, and interdisciplinary international team of emerging and renowned artists, scientists, and technologists. With collaborators from Africa, Asia, Europe, South and North America, theater and sound performers collaborate with experts in new media, technologies, artificial intelligence, virtual production, interaction design, scenography, 3D modeling/animation and game engine programming, music composition, and spatial sound design.
by and with: Erik Adigard (US/FR), Audry Chen (US/DE), Stefanie Egedy (BR), The Future of Dance Company (NG), Immersive Arts Space/ZHdK (CH), Pascal Lund-Jensen (CH), kyoka Matzusawa (JP), Raqs Media Collective (IN), Marius Rehmet (DE), Team Rolfes (US), Judith Rosmair (DE), Chris Salter (US/CH), Sebastien Schiesser (CH), Remco Schuurbiers (NL/DE), Pierre-Luc Senecal/Growlers Choir (QC/CA), Rully Shabara (ID), Stella Speziali (CH), Timothy Thomasson (CA), Fernando Velasquez (BR)
