Begüm Erciyas - Pillow Talk (new work)

Begüm Erciyas works in her performances with the power of the voice and the act of speaking. After the successful Voicing Pieces, this year she presents a new creation that focuses on the experience of the voice as an uncanny medium. Because, although we use it to express our personal convictions and feelings, in the digital age we are often in doubt about who is speaking: is it a person or a machine? This doubt and this conviction alternate constantly in Pillow Talk. Spread over a hilly landscape, the public enters into a dialogue with a virtual conversation partner. An artificial voice functions as a mediator, a companion and a mirror. While conversations are being constructed one word at a time, impressions are being shared, naps are being taken and time passes, Pillow Talk invites you to engage in an intimate relationship with the non-human.

Credits
Concept & direction: Begüm Erciyas
Scenography: Elodie Dauguet
Light design: Jan Maertens
Sound design: Adolfina Fuck
Interface developer: Ruben van de Ven
Script collaboration: Adolfina Fuck, Katja Dreyer, Dennis Deter, Hermann Heisig, Jean-Baptiste Veyret-Logerias
Artistic advice: David Weber-Krebs
Research support: Robert M. Ochshorn, Holger Heissmeyer, Ewa Bankowska, Jozef Wouters, Diego Agulló, Vincent Roumagnac, Taro Inamura, Michael Spranger
Presentation: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, KVS
Production: Begüm Erciyas, Platform 0090
Supported by: the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès within the framework of the New Settings Program
Coproduction: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, STUK (Leuven), Buda (Kortrijk), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Centre Dramatique National Nanterre-Amandiers
Research support: wp-Zimmer (Antwerp), Q-O2 Brussels, Saison Foundation (Tokyo)
Funded by: Berlin Senate
Department for Culture and Europe and Flemish Community, Ministry of Culture