Fantasia Realism (2022)

20′, live performance with a projection.

Created and co-directed by:
Soyun Park & Wellsgoodness (Inwoo Jung)

Costume & stage props design: Mika Schalks & Luka Dortmans
Florist: Serena Kim
Makeup & hair: Mika Schalks
Research assistant: Cailean Finn

Fantasia Realism is an audio-visual live performance experimenting with surrealistic experiences through the use of Artificial Intelligence. Drawing on the methodology of early 20th-century surrealist artists who used non-linear narratives as a way to explore pure unconsciousness, the artists used AI to develop the script of the performance using reality-based input words.

In this project, a machine learning system trained on fictional stories such as fairy tales, horrors and thrillers is used to generate a composition of visual and sonic material which the two artists then manipulate live in a theatrical performance.

The audience is invited to experience sensory stimulations such as a strong earthy scent and misty fog when entering space. This captivatingly submerges them into the 20 minutes of fantasy and eerie, fictional dreams.

Commissioned by iii workspace at their artist research residency
Premiered at Rewire Festival, Proximity Music: Sensing after Thoughts
Supported by Arts Council Korea (아르코, Arko)