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THE DEATH OF THE ANTHROPOCENE

Unfortunately we have to postpone this event. Please keep a look out for a future re-scheduling announcement.

THE DEATH OF THE ANTHROPOCENE
Anthropocene Radio Drama / 3D Animation by Julian Bonequi
Postponed

“Awarded by Deutschlandradio Kultur – Hörspiel/Klangkunst and CTM Festival 2017.
Mexican artist Julian Bonequi’s winning proposal, “The Death of the Anthropocene,” imagines a series of one-on-one encounters between ordinary people and mysterious visitors… painting humorous yet grim pictures of the future of humanity.” CTM Festival

“Julian Bonequi’s “Death of the Anthropcene” starts from one of the most disturbing moments in radio’s history, Orson Welles famous radio drama “War of the Worlds”, which aired life on Hallowe’en in 1938. Bonequi is less interested in the myth about this broadcast and the panic that it caused (or what the media made out of some reactions), but more in the broadcasted text of Wells’ adaption. While in “War of the Worlds” the aliens are hostile, do not talk and destroy all that is living, Bonequi’s multi-layered, humourous and strange adaption reminds us of the fact that Wells’s fantasy is not fiction anymore.”
Ole Frahm

Julian Bonequi is a hybrid artist working with mixed reality. Founder of Audition Records Berlin-Mexico, as professor and researcher he has collaborated in research groups about interactive technologies. Bonequi has taught new media art in Mexico City and masters-level animation courses at the Pompeu Fabra University and the Polytechnic University of Valencia. At the same time he continues to coordinate the artist-in-residence project organized by his own Hybrid Arts Lab [Laboratorio Artes Híbridas]. In 2015 his music was launched into space alongside artists as Pierre Henry, Mats Gustafsson.

Watch the trailer here.

Credits:
THE DEATH OF THE ANTHROPOCENE by Julian Bonequi.
Live Sound Recording – performed live by Bonequi – at CTM Festival,
Berlin 04/02/17
Direction/Script/3D Art/Music by Bonequi
Voice, drums, toy harp, live electronics – Bonequi
Commissioned and produced for the CTM 2017 Radio Lab.

SPECIAL CREDITS
Cast: Camille Mandoki / Scott Cazan / Bonequi
Aura Arreola: dance [motion capture]
Tamara Dauenhauer: piano loop