2025 Performance & Music Award Finalists
Revivification
Guy Ben-Ary
Revivification transforms the late composer Alvin Lucier's blood cells into living brain organoids, creating ever evolving sonic landscapes via neural activity, allowing his biological material to continue composing after death - a radical exploration of posthumous creativity.
Memories of the Melted
Thijs Biersteker
Memories of the Melted' turns Swiss‑glacier monitoring data into a living performance: past flow, current retreat and projected futures ripple through a clear ice slab that melts or regrows as you interact, turning climate loss into tactile memory and urgent call to act.
Audience As Virus
Eva Davidova
Audience As Virus is an ongoing research and an interactive immersive installation-performance that involves the audience in the possibility to break ChatGPT and HMDM predictions of human movement, and offers the public a clear capacity to intervene.
Hourglass
Maria Finkelmeier
Hourglass explores our fleeting relationship with time—its lessons and its challenges. A live performance for marimba, electronics, voice, and generative visuals, the work immerses audiences in each nuanced musical gesture, revealing the ephemeral nature of every expression.
Onirica ()
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Onirica () is a live media opera exploring the ethereal perception of the body within the realm of dreams. The performance offers a novel exploration of that same narrative, this time with a new focus on sleep and dreams in their corporeal component.
Ritual / System
Nicholas Medvescek
Ritual / System is an immersive performance research project exploring relationships between frequencies of sound, light, rhythm and space. This performance strives to reorient the audience in perspective and perception through spatial audio and immersive visual presentation.
Subtle States
Vadim Mirgorod
We turned a classical concert into an introspective experience. Visitors tracked emotions in real time, choosing from 150+ nuanced feelings. Words floated on a transparent mesh, animated by air dynamics—blending music, motion, and self-awareness into one immersive moment.
Body-Go-Round
Amu
This MR performance explores the water cycle—ice melting into water,then turning into steam—where reality & virtuality interact.The melting of a suspended ice cube is captured in sound & movement, then synthesized, decomposed,and amplified into immersive aural and visual elements
Umweltraum((a))
Laura Mannelli
Umweltraum((a)) is a nonlinear, immersive sound installation with live performance. Inspired by biologist Jakob von Uexküll’s concepts of Umwelt and Umweltraum, it explores a mutating synthetic ecosystem questioning life, machines, and non human intelligence
Replica
Ben Neal & Kerryn Wise
Replica combines Dance, Mixed Reality and Volumetric Capture, allowing a performer to duet with her digital double. Audiences experience a real and virtual dancer interacting, and are invited to question the nature of presence, mortality and representation in the digital age.