Veronika Tikhonova
Hyper reality

November 2, 2024
Saal mit Galerie, Villa Elisabeth
Duration - 2,0h (15:00-17:00)

For people with movement experience
English

Veronika Tikhonova is a dance artist who works in the fields of dance, performance, and media art. Her practice explores the poetics of post-humanism and the expansion of bodily and sensory experiences. She graduated as a choreographer from Saint Petersburg University of Humanities, and completed a course at New Media Laboratory, organized by Alexandrinsky Theatre. As a performer, she has worked with Foofwa d’Imobilité, Sasha Waltz, Anna Abalikhinа, Ivan Estigneev, etc. She has worked with inclusive projects, such as “Anton tut ryadom” (Russia) and “In Form” (Georgia). In 2023, she was nominated for the Golden Mask Award for choreography and performance in her solo piece "Horse Maintenance".

The workshop is an insight into artistic practice that is rooted in post-Internet philosophy and examines the blurry lines between reality and simulation in the current digital age. Participants are invited to collectively explore hyperreal interactions and to embody virtual body qualities—such as gameplay, weightlessness, lack of inertia and gravity, and the concept of rebirth. Each of us will create a personal movement vocabulary inspired by gestures and emojis, treating these movements like elements in music production: cutting, fading in and out, and looping them. The aim is to develop a quality of an unfinished movement, a movement that does not serve a functional purpose, glitching between being and not-being. With these qualities, we will delve into the creation of a collective reality, searching for new ways to communicate and exploring the boundaries of social interaction.