ΛΕΚΑΝΗ - LEKANI

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**the second iteration of LEKANI will be shown on International Women‘s Day (March 8th 2023) at Deep Space 8K at Ars Electronica Center**

LEKANI is an ongoing transdisciplinary and immersive installation performance that is articulated on several levels of research: movement, live camera capture and VJ-ing, video projection, coding, music and costume design.
The project emerged from the DANU workshop between Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität and Kunstuniversität Linz, in co-operation with Ars Electronica Center.
The artists of LEKANI are currently in the process of further development and form an international, heterogeneous group with diverse artistic backgrounds and interests.

**The powers that surveil society are invisible to the surveilled. These powers are abstract and self-regulating - applied from all angles. The boundaries between observation and surveillance become blurred. Artists and audience are immersed in a contemporary and explicit panopticon. The traditional observation tower is replaced by digital devices which recreate a closed, guarded environment, resulting in a recursive relationship between surveillance and supervision. We are the observers observing ourselves.**

The artists welcome the audience to partake in a transdisciplinary experience, and are invited to notice the imperceptible, become aware of what is ignored, and recognize where they place their attention.
through movement, interconnected perception and audio-visual elements, the performers create an atmosphere in which they may temporarily dissolve their personal individuality, and become part of a new emergent, disciplinary organism, which exists as a set of relations to one another, at the intersection between art and technology.


CONCEPT AND PERFORMANCE
Alejandra Benet, Ariathney Coyne, Sara Koniarek, Lucia Mauri

MUSIC & SOUND DESIGN
Daphne Xanthopoulou

COSTUMES
Julia Moser

VIDEO
Constantin Georgescu
(Deep Space 8K Ars Electronica Festival 2022, Linz)

TECHNICAL SUPPORT
Doğuş Karlık