— Interactive Installation, Bellevue Theatre / 2015

Altar of Dice

I had a pleasure to be invited by Ulrike Quade to participate in a project related to her play "Maniacs" in Bellevue Theatre in Amsterdam.

Is it possible to build a romantic relationship with a doll?

I was asked to react to the phenomenon of people who engage in love relationships with real dolls. Can we really feel love for an object? Do we have the power of charging dead matter with emotions or energy?

Altar of Dice is a theatrical interactive installation that slows down (while magnifying and dramatizing) the process of throwing a dice with an specific intention. We “know” we have no influence in the result, and yet we concentrate to make contact with the dice like if we were looking for the right state of mind to succeed.

  • Dice Soul
    Dice Soul
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In his book “Synchronicity”, Carl Jung writes about a dice experiment in the '30 to study the possibility of us having the capability to control the results. Also the botanist Rhine made by that time extensive tests to check if we could possibly develop telepathy. Those experiments are inspirational since they both are based on the idea that we need to try in order to know more about our own possibilities. In aim to know, we need to try. We should always keep on playing and using fantasy as limitless instrument to design experiments for humanity’s future development.

  • Cage the Dice
    Cage the Dice
  • Feed the Dice
    Feed the Dice
  • Roll the Dice
    Roll the Dice
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