Camille Paycha + Sofie Anny Nicea Velghe

AFK is a circus performance, a glitched world where (non)humans play with norms and your senses. Sofie Anny Nicea Velghe and Camille Paycha invite you to experience the interplay of exposure and haunting transformation through a choreography of visual trickery 'AFK' (Away From Keyboard). The performers embrace their multiple selves, welcoming the ghosts hovering around, to refuse essentialism and hold space. For the making of this piece, Sofie and Camille are inspired, on the one hand, by Indigenous Brazilian philosopher Ailton Krenak, more specifically his book 'Ideas to postpone the end of the world'. Krenak argues that our world is ending not only through environmental collapse but also through a loss of imagination and ollective care. On the other hand, the makers are inspired by Cyberfemnism, a self-reflexive term where technology is not only the subject but its means of transmission. It is all about feedback. Sofie and Camille are thus making a bridge to beter explore the political power of what could seem contradictory sources of knowledge, to give space to a different virtuosity.