CEREMONI FOR SØRGENDE by the group Rituel Virkelighed
‍Somewhere in a capsized future, man has returned to ritual, to the ceremony of understanding his grief and his life. There is a sadness about Europe. Over Denmark. A sadness that weighs on our thoughts and shadows the future that is not shining before us.

CEREMONI FOR SØRGENDE is about all those who perish trying to get to Europe. But it is also about us standing byand watching. Those who accept and those who do not accept. And those of us who don't know what to put up. Sometimes we just need to cry.

This is a ritual for that time, and the world that is ours. We give grief a space to be in, grief is something black. Sorrow is an ocean. Grief is love.

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SWEET C.I. EXPERIENCE by Noora Hannula and Ida Duelund
‍In an interview with Computerworld in 2007, the famous author, inventor, futurist and development manager of Google, Ray Kurzweil, predicted that 2017 would be the year of “augmented reality.” He predicted widespread use of 360-degree Virtual Reality (VR) and warned that few would be able to understand how radically different such a future would be.

... And it looks like Kurtzweil was right! In 2014, Facebook acquired VR giant Oculus with a vision to create a whole new social media universe that we will soon be able to step into as avatars - virtual alter egos. Meanwhile, the gaming industry is well underway to introduce and promote dating as the ultimate game with a plethora of virtual worlds and characters that simulate intimate human relationships.

Prototypes of customer-friendly VR suits have already been created and will soon be on the market, and this means with great certainty that the relationships of the future will include interaction in the most intimate ways. But do we really want to live in a weirdly lonely future - connected to machines and distanced from other people?

Inspired by this dilemma, choreographer and dancer Noora Hannula explores constructive intimacy together with musician Ida Duelund in a dance solo that delves into a future of intimate experiences generated by machines.