This Ritual I Wish You Could See (Render & File)

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A lecture-performance by the collaborating artist duo that deals with rituals of war in the rendered image. The performance focuses on various political parties in the Middle East and their uses of virtual reality and video games in juxtaposition to Western military-entertainment mindsets. It takes the form of a documentary text made up of an ascending sequence of visual, sonic, and prosefragments. Applying the imagery of spiritual figures, as well as the masculinity of soldiers in computer-generated war environments, the simulations of sites and territories emphasize a variety of central historical, geopolitical, and identitarian narratives.