VENUS 2.0 is a large-scale multi-media music performance by Tyler Matthew Oyer. Set within a fantastic and dystopian dream-like sculptural and light installation, Oyer creates a full-length performance concert that combines their history with and research into the nightclub, esoteric rituals, experimental/queer theatre, and altered states of reflection, ecstasy, and togetherness. The movement of two performers mimics the celestial orbit of Earth and Venus as they orbit the sun - a metaphorical exploration of queer relationality beyond this planet. The performance zooms in and out between the nightclub dance floor and the cosmos; traversing the micro and macro as a way of better understanding the here and now, the singular and relational body, and ultimately, our psychic humanity.
In this gesamtkunstwerk, the connective tissue is Oyer’s original music album BERLIN ALIEN.
VENUS 2.0 is a conjuring. It is a fantasy. It is a temporary release from the here and now.
Co-performer and choreographer: Kevin Zambrano (Dorian Electra, Post Malone, The Weeknd, Solange, Charli XCX, Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker, Gerard & Kelly, Andy Blankenbuehler, West Side Story Broadway debut)
Lighting design: Veslemøy Rustad Holseter (lighting design at Berghain Ostgut, Trauma Bar und Kino; performs as Grinderteeth)
Platform design: Luc Sequeira
Curated by: Clara López Menéndez
This performance is funded in part by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, NY, Goethe Institut Berlin, and California Institute of the Arts.
Profile in DOCUMENT JOURNAL.
