_Spheres_ is a choreographic installation on the interface of intimacy, communication and artificial intelligence for the museum space for three performers, 5 intelligent spheres and visitors. It focuses on the communication between humans and technology and how movement in different bodies can be transformed through interaction, approach and chance. The result is a vivid and exploratory study of encounter, communication and agency.

  
The work _Spheres_ is an artistic research project. The current state of the work has been presented at numerous festivals and conferences, and the premiere of the piece took place with the exhibition _Welcome to Paradise_ from August 2021 to January 2022 at _NRW Forum Düsseldorf_. 

Spheres

_afk_ is an installation of multiple large scale skins, also called performative JPEGs. 

  
With the questions What is a performance? What is a body? What is identity? is the subject of the afk project, for which technically deconstructed portraits of choreographers are produced and presented in two-dimensional form. The aim is to visually represent the invisible, the uncategorizable, the non-binary through a performance in the form of JPEGs.

The JPEGs show a realistic scan of the choreographers' unfolded skin, which has been prepared for the creation of avatars and arranged on a planar surface according to a special key.

By decoupling the skin from the content and movement archive, the body is robbed of its energy potential. Only in the eye of the viewer, who tries to place the skin on an imaginary movement apparatus in his mind's eye, does a new body emerge and with it a reality unique to each recipient.

In this way, afk confronts viewers with the socially pressing questions of how to deal with identity-forming data (and how to protect it), the depiction and representation of human bodies in digital media and the socio-technological constructs of bodies and movement per se.

  
// Featurette: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_IlGP2BAmvE&t=3s

_Precious Camouflage_ is a large-scale study on movement and digital technology, inviting you to join reality entanglements and its distortions, to sense alien intimacy and the fine line between observation and surveillance. _Precious Camouflage_ is a dance piece for four dancers and four live AI systems, currently touring to international threatres, festivals and conferences. It has been shown at _tanzhaus nrw_ and _ZKM Karlsruhe_ among other venues.

// www.precious.dance 

// Featurette: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmJGCbHaRmA

Precious Camouflage

With the work _I Have Found Seriousness Inside Of Me_ Charlotte Triebus shows another part of a series of performances that explore structures of touch and transfer them into a performative installation with the help of multimedia visualization techniques. What is memory and what is memory? How does the body remember? At what point is a person touched?

The touch and interaction of two dancers controls light and sound installation, sound tracks, text and a live video projection. Intimacy, body memory, and interaction are addressed in a 20-minute performance with two performers. Immediately in front of the performers hangs a circular light installation (1.2m in diameter) that begins to flicker when touched. The more weight the performers give to each other, the stronger and more constant the flow of light becomes.

The soundscape for the work _I Have Found Seriousness Inside Of Me_ consists of flickering and text fragments collaged by live touch, which are also modulated in small ways by the interaction of the performers.

The work _I Have Found Seriousness Inside Of Me_ was shown for the first time during the Open Source Festival in Düsseldorf, most recently in a new and expanded version at the Kunstetage at Ernst & Young.

Seriousness

_Lunatic Cloud Ten_ is part of a series of performances that explore structures of touch. It presents the central questions of the connection between technology and human beings with the help of a cloud. The performance works through its proportions (size, slowness, ratios), in which parameters between human and machine are renegotiated. The invisible elements of the performance (air, attention of the interlocutors, presence of the actors) are made visible through the communication of man and machine. The cloud visualizes air as a muscle that follows and at the same time also independently initiates new movement.

  
During the performance, a dancer rises very slowly in unison with the Cloud (3.2 m in diameter) connects with it, gradually decoupling from the audience. After the performance, or when the performance is not live, the Cloud remains in the space as a breathing installation.

The soundscape for _Lunatic Cloud Ten_ consists of recordings from an orchestra made up of 16 prepared fans and 12 prepared lifting magnets, and sets an atmospheric tone with a buzzing, rattling basic sound.

  
The work _Lunatic Cloud Ten_ has been shown in numerous exhibitions and at international festivals, including the Berliner Festspiele and the exhibition urban stage at the Bayer Erholungshaus in Leverkusen.

Lunatic Cloud Ten

The work _is a rose_ by artist Charlotte Triebus in collaboration with the _Mirevi Lab_ addresses the interspecial communication between romantic surveillance state and actor-network theory. The question of agency of animate and inanimate objects plays just as much a role as the perhaps outdated dichotomy of nature and technology - and thus demonstrates an equality of agents in a performative structure. Can we grant each agent a behavior approximating action?

  
_is a rose_ is a performative installation for and with a moving audience. Nine hanging plants are arranged in space in relation to an LED monitor (1,50\*1,50m). The plants, which are all hung in the style of kokedama, that is, with the root in a sphere outside, record the movement of museum visitors walking around them through their foliage. The seismographic impression of the plants is recorded and modulates in real time a sphere on the monitor, displayed as a raster graphic, rotating on its own axis. All the motion recordings of the plants add up as a joint interaction over the course of a day and manifest themselves in the shape of the object displayed on the screen.

  
For the first time the work _is a rose_ was shown in the exhibition _I Engineer_ in the Baumwollspinnerei Leipzig, after that it was part of international exhibitions and conferences.

is a rose

_kin\__ is an exploratory dance piece about human corporeality and body-based art through and with digital technology, addressing the transference of performativity into the digital, entanglements of reality, and the dichotomy of surveillance and intimacy. Noting that agency is not an exclusively human quality, but can also be attributed to other forms of being, constellations, or inanimate objects, _kin\__ appeals to the shift in agency between performer and recipient in moments of interaction. The performance is freely downloadable from the Appstore at <https://apps.apple.com/de/app/kin/id1580039645> .

  
_kin\__ has been featured at numerous festivals, exhibitions and conferences internationally, such as Slamdance Festival in Salt Lake City, International Symposium on Electronic Arts at CCCB Barcelona and temps d'images at Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf. A full list can be seen at the project's website <www.kin.dance> .

kin_

_proxy_ (2023) is a live digital performance by Charlotte Triebus in which three avatars in augmented

space become visible in physical space through your own digital device. The avatars respond individually to each viewer - to facial expressions, distance from the viewer and height of the device - and independently adjust the piece to fit the space around the viewer.

In _proxy_, ethical doubts are expressed even more strongly than in part 1 (_kin\__; Available at:

<https://apps.apple.com/de/app/kin/id1580039645>), as the avatars resemble the choreographer, but are in fact other dancers from the _New Human Body Society_. The themes of Identity and Cultural Appropriation, ethical aspects of digital bodies, surveillance and cyborgism are made tangible and experiential in this digital dance piece.

For the interactive, binaural soundtrack, Charlotte Triebus has been collaborating with composer

Brigitta Muntendorf. _kin\_proxy_ has been developed and scientifically supported by _MIREVI Lab_ (University of Applied Science Düsseldorf).

  
_proxy_ is freely available from the Appstore from April 2023 and has been exhibited for the first time for Tanzhaus NRW at _temps d’images_ and will be part of various festivals and exhibitions throughout the year. The exact exhibition venues can be found in the event calendar on the

project’s website <www.kin.dance> and on the artist’s website <www.triebus.com> .

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