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'AFK' is a circus performance, a glitched world in which (non-)humans play with norms and with your senses. Sofie Anny Nicea Velghe and Camille Paycha invite you to experience the interplay between exposure and ghostly transformation through a choreography of visual deception: 'AFK (Away From Keyboard)'.

The performers embrace their multiple selves and welcome the floating spirits, thereby rejecting essentialism and preserving space. To create this performance, Sofie and Camille draw inspiration on the one hand from the Indigenous Brazilian philosopher Ailton Krenak, and more specifically from his book 'Ideas to Postpone the End of the World'. Krenak argues that our world ends not only through ecological collapse, but also through a loss of imagination and collective care.

On the other hand, the creators draw inspiration from cyberfeminism, a self-reflective term in which technology is not only the subject, but also the means of transmission. Everything revolves around feedback. In this way, Sofie and Camille build a bridge to explore the political power of what at first glance appear to be contradictory sources of knowledge, through a meticulous choreography of floating bodies, music, and spoken word.

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