NACL presents a work-in-progress showing of Sunset: A Techno Elegy by The Hinterlands and Renee Willoughby — A mythic telling of loss, transformation, and enchantment for the digital age.

The Hinterlands is a Detroit-based company creating performances and public events that are equal parts playful and surreal. Their work is built around pressing into unknown areas of personal and collective history with fearless physicality and a sense of humor. They create a space for audiences to experience this unknown hinterland with the performers through techniques that disarm and disorient, short-circuiting expectations and luring them into unexpected interactions. 

Inspired by medieval retellings of the Orpheus myth and our collective internet-driven madness, Sunset weaves technologies old and new — mask performance, live video mixing, AI chatbots, electronic music, lamentations, spirit talking, automata, Victorian illusion and more — into a music-driven terrifyingly embodied work that mythologizes our relationship with technology, and how it has changed and shaped our imagination.

Stay after the presentation for delicious soup, and conversation!

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