Hotel “AntiOedipus” by Elli Papakonstantinou

Our world is shifting around us in these times of seclusion and dichotomy. As we are facedwith a common crisis for the first time after WW2, some say we are connected more now thanever before. How does this affect our understanding of collective consciousness? What is thisemerging global “Agora”? It is time to dive into the self and to connect with the collective. InHotel “AntiOedipus”, Deleuze-Guattari’s fluid identity challenges the notion of a new everevolving self. Fluid identity (collective and individual) is at the global epicenter.

In the show Hotel “AntiOedipus” face recognition and gaming technologies mixed with livevisuals radically “upgrade” audience experience in digital performance. Avatars and solitaryindividuals connect live from the seclusion of their domestic environments across the globe;meet and have fun in virtual bars; join forces to form a new global “Agora”; through thekeyhole attend psychoanalyst sessions that take place behind doors; move freely from onehotel room to the other; pip on the most private affairs of Jocasta and Oedipus and challengethe way we think of ourselves in a total game of identity. Hotel “AntiOedipus” is a challengeto explore the self.

Excerpt: Elli Papakonstantinou

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