TECHNOLOGICAL EVE
2025
sound-based performance
with Tina Xi

TECHNOLOGICAL EVE is a multi-experience performance, creating parallel visual and sonic views to be discovered by the Public, crafting an immersion into the portals of Eden and Earth.

The movements and sounds of the performance try to express the unexplainable feeling that comes with juxtaposing aspects of life, mostly of marginalized women, who live in constant battles of their personal agency and the restriction they experience - physical or immaterial. The piece explores this agency through the disconnect that is created between the movement and the sound that's heard by the Public, as an expression of censorship where ideas, sounds, images, and sometimes people, are replaced by a safer substitute, something less provocative, forcing an imbalance. This imbalance in the visual and sonic intends to convey the same feeling as, for example, reading a book under the rule of the islamic republic in Iran. The word "wine" is auto-replaced in books with "milk", one red, one bone-white, one alcoholic, one not, one elegant, one childish, it subjects censored literature to a lack of meaning, creating a loss of sense. In TECHNOLOGICAL EVE, this same loss of sense is seen from the lack of links between the live sound performance and the performer's movement, which follow a different sonic source. The Public is therefore tested to use their personal agency to change the way they perceive the piece, similar to the Women who rebel against the restrictions and censorships, by simple acts of reading, listening, watching, loving, kissing.

Reading Lolita in Tehran, listening to Googoosh in wet basements, watching Titanic on old TVs, loving who they love under the sky, kissing each
other behind open windows. Life becomes resistence.