Using a neurosensing headband developed by Berlin tech start-up, Neurofox, one of the performer’s brainwaves are transformed into visuals, while the other’s movements are sonified through a motion tracking device embedded in the costume. Hence, the performers create the audiovisual landscape of the performance in real-time, making the invisible waves around us, visible.

DEEP WAVES took the “doble yo” (The Double Me) concept from the pre-Columbian San Agustin culture as its standpoint. Depicted as the figure of a naked standing warrior with the head of a jaguar on top of him, it symbolises the magical power of the shaman. This creature embodies duality: Male and Female, Matter and Spirit, Rational and Instinctive, Universal and Native. This sense of dichotomy fuels the piece.

Although the digital era only appeared at the last second in the day of human evolution, DEEP WAVES uses these new tools to reflect on how important it is to create new rituals to reach, once again, that state when Mankind’s connection with nature was more tangible, its intuition better developed and its culture gave more emphasis to human interaction.

In this day and age of global warming, ecological catastrophes and cultural genocides, dystopian fears seem like visions of times to come, leaving Man as the sole prospect for the planet’s recovery, which is why it is ever so pressing for us to achieve such primordial ways of connecting.

DEEP WAVES is supported by the Internationales Theaterinstitut, the Mime Centrum Berlin & Art in Retail

FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR

Colombian-born performing artist and spatial designer José Fernando Andrade has led a versatile career, developing interdisciplinary dance-theatre projects in Colombia, Spain and Germany with his former project Esfenoides.

In 2009, he established himself in Berlin, working on design projects for European retail intelligence and trend research agencies. Besides his consultancy Art In Retail, José-Fernando has also been teaching Dance-Theatre and conducting workshops for both public and private institutions to enhance participants’ creativity.

More recently, stemming from his passion for new technologies, José Fernando has been developing innovative ‘phygital’ workshops, which mix visual and sound art, video and neurotech, to enhance participants’ creativity.

From the positive response he received, he decided to further this exploration and founded in 2017 INNATIVE LAB, aiming to create immersive experiences through the connection of art and sensing technologies

José Fernando's agency: artininretail.com

Previous works until 2013: www.esfenoides.com