In their performative and ritualistic talk “Hypericonography” cultural engineer [M]Dudeck and his artistic collaborator Javi Acevedo might turn even the atheists among you into believers: Their lushly staged queer & sci-fi religion – now almost a decade in the making – spans and transcends physical settings as well as various digital media formats, ever exploring new forms to re-invent, screen and perform religion as art (and art as religion) in the information age.
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Talk - Hypericonography
Thu - 18:00 - room1This project, called RELIGIONVIR.US, deploys ritual performance, museological installation of invented artifacts, ceremonial techno-sermons, web-based temples and lab-grown skin bibles to produce a hybrid, psychedelic new religion as art that performs how belief systems can be hacked and artistically repurpoused in the age of deep fakes and alternative facts.
RELIGIONVIR.US has been performed, exhibited, screened and otherwise presented in over twenty five countries worldwide. After a decade of a largely performative artistic ritual, Dudeck began to feel the need to compose the RELIGIONVIR.US Bible. This has taken several forms including an online virtual temple (produced as part of HAMBURG MASCHINE), a graphic novel (in the form of a series of scrolls), Hypericons (large lightboxes that resemble stained glass windows) and an original soundtrack (OTS) featuring psalms composed and performed in Dudeck’s invented language. When Dudeck began their illumination/illustrative style after nearly a decade of constant ritual performance, they began to create a new method of creating digital images, one that is highly performative and process-oriented. RELIGIONVIR.US has since become a multi-media production team that collaboratively makes queer religion in multiple digital media. Hypericonography is a pseudo performative/ritual/lecture wherein [M]Dudeck and their collaborator Javi Acevedo will present the various hybrid ways they have worked together on RELIGIONVIR.US TRANSMISSIONS to produce a new hybrid, queer digital iconography.