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A person stands in front of a screen showing a digital figure.
Slava Romanov

umbra
— In the
Digital Shadow

Audiovisual Performance by
Slava Romanov & Chi Him Chik

Performance
Premiere
5.12.
Fr
20:00
Premiere
6.12.
Sa
20:00
Advance sales start soon

Solidarity price system:
€8 / €12 / €18 ( free choice)
Bremen Pass: €3
Children and young people aged 5-17: €5

Culture semester ticket: free of charge

Advance sales online only. Remaining tickets available at the box office 0421 520 80 70 from 1 hour before the start of the event.

Alternatively, you can reserve tickets by phone or email:
0421 520 80 70 (Mon, Wed—Fri 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., also answering machine) or ticket@schwankhalle.de

Please note: Our ticket hotline is not operated on weekends or in the evenings. We therefore ask you to make your reservations in advance.

Reserved tickets must be picked up at the box office at least 30 minutes before the start of the performance—after that, the reservation will expire.
The box office can be reached by phone 1 hour before the start of the event at 0421 520 80 70.

Duration: Approx. 50 minutes without intermission

Language: Spoken English

Sound: There are passages with high volume

Lighting & other effects: Bright flashes of light and fog are used

All public areas of the Schwankhalle are at ground level and accessible without steps.

There are three different toilets: an accessible toilet that is also suitable for wheelchair users, a toilet with three cubicles and a toilet with urinals and a toilet cubicle.

The audience area is generally seated.
The wheelchair spaces are located in the front row and can be reserved in advance by telephone 0421 520 80 70, by email ticket@schwankhalle.de or by making an entry in the ticketshop.

Individual requirements such as specific seats, early boarding or an additional ticket for an accompanying person can also be specified when purchasing or reserving tickets.

Further information on the accessibility of our premises can be found here: Accessibility. If you have any questions, please contact us at ticket@schwankhalle.de or 0421 520 80 70.

How does artificial intelligence reshape the relationship between »master« and »tool«? Where does the human end and the machine begin? And how do these technologies influence our perception and interaction with the world? The audiovisual performance umbra and its accompanying workshops invite the audience to discover their own interpretations of identity and consciousness in the digital age.

Musician and performer Chi Him Chik plays his self-developed improvisation machine Aiii and the multimedia instrument Type-0《零式》. At the same time, media artist Slava Romanov creates images that appear like digital shadows on a moving transparent screen. Movements, sounds, and light respond to one another in real time – forming a constantly shifting play between reality and its digital reflection.

Accompanying the show, free workshops with the artists will take place on Sat Dec 6, from 10:00 am—12:00 pm and 2:00 pm—4:00 pm. More information will be available shortly.

Oscillating and morphing between practices and identities, Hong Kong media artist and performer Chi Him Chik draws inspirations from the reflections of conflicts, dilemma, pain, and chaos of personal, social, and political experiences and events, while combining skills, knowledges, and aesthetics from different fields/genres and transforming his spectrum of artistic languages into performative experiences which one might find overwhelming, surreal, but unique.

chihimchik.com  ↗

Slava Romanov is a Bremen-based data artist and multimedia developer, originally from the Urals, Russia. He designs interactive systems that transform complex questions, stories and emotions into real-time visual and spatial experiences. Drawing on legal and digital media backgrounds, his internationally exhibited work investigates language, memory, and socio-political processes, challenging the binaries of chaos/order, simplicity/complexity, analysis/speculation, and human/machine.

slavaromanov.art  ↗

Instagram
@umbra_mediaart ↗
@davinel000 ↗
@chihimchik ↗

Credits

Concept/Direction & Performance: Slava Romanov & Chi Him Chik
Kinetic screen design & fabrication: Juan Camilo Luque, Leonard Spillner
External Communications: Alexandra Reinig

Co-production: Schwankhalle.

Funded by the Senator for Culture of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. With the kind support of: Schwankhalle Bremen, University of the Arts Bremen, We Dig It!, URBANSCREEN GmbH & Co. KG.