There is Peace in the Blueprint

Performance/Video game
Concept/Performance/Video game Nadia Bakhshi
Composer/Lyricist
George Demetriou
30 minutes (work in progress)
Splendor Amsterdam
Images by Nadia Bakhshi

"There is peace in the blueprint" is a song cycle, a game, and a simulation. At its centre is a performer inside a life simulation that works like a survival game: she has to keep things running in real time. On stage, she operates a small concrete mixer. Its rotation drives a video game projected behind her, where five identical versions of her exist. As long as the machine turns, the world holds together. 

“to seek oblivion is to seek the blue,
                                                                  to find oblivion is to miss the blue”