We, Brute Force

We, Brute Force is an 8-minute 180° stereoscopic VR dance miniature featuring two dancers from the New Human Body Society around Charlotte Triebus (Misha Ostenrath, Kevin Beyer). It takes as its starting point brute force as a strategy describing the systematic trial-and-error use of force in both algorithms and warfare.

The work negotiates guilt and innocence as a suspended state between subjects and non-human agency in the age of AI. The choreography presents the human being in a tender act of saliva, fallibility, and falling, within an immersive staging featuring costumes by Flora Miranda.

The auditory layers translate the work into additional languages. Text layers, rhythmic shifts and narrative fragments, together with entangled algorithms, reveal brute force as a poetic method that, through its very impossibility, searches for meaning, sense, and protection.