The Desert of the Real - A multi-sensory live performance by Studio Radiaal
14.05.2025 - 15.05.2025 Concertgebouw Brugge
Brugge (B)
The Desert of the Real - A multi-sensory live performance by Studio Radiaal
Technology increasingly reshapes our perceptions, blurring the boundaries between the tangible and the virtual. Drawing on Baudrillard’s concept of hyperreality, The Desert of the Real explores how we experience, perceive, and remember reality within a shifting ecological and technological landscape.
Through a staged journey across four scenes, the performance opens with virtual reality as a portal. This individual immersion in a simulated environment gradually shifts toward the exploration of the installations and shifting landscapes on stage. Objects appear fossilized, remnants of a fading world, while original compositions for cello, piano, and live electronics draw audiences into an active role within a fluid reality. Digital seeds and strange organisms start to grow, as glitches and sonic distortions increasingly disturb the fragile balance between the organic and the artificial. Between fading echoes and fractured images, the desert of the real unravels.
STUDIO RADIAAL is an Audiovisual Collective / Pushing the Boundaries of Traditional Art Forms / Creating Multi-Sensory Performances & Stand-alone Installations / Blending Original Compositions for Cello, Piano & Electronics with Visual Art, Video Art, and Scenography.