The interFACE Digital Pleasure Center is a performance space that immerses visitors in a speculative and spectacular world. In the center environment, physical and digital bodies, software and hardware are interwoven into a singular, novel organism that enables entirely new perceptions of physicality.

interFACE combines principles of gaming, world building and LARP into an immersive and hybrid theatrical experience. In its dramaturgy, the Digital Pleasure Center breaks with dominant narratives around digitality and explores alternative dynamics. Audiences become active visitors to the center and can try out six aesthetic-performative treatments, experiments in which they interact with a variety of digital technologies to reimagine embodied sensations and relationships between themselves and tech. Each treatment is based on a different queer/feminist/decolonial narrative around technology. 

The goal of the collaborative, subversive experience is to generate Digital Pleasure, a lustful and emotional exchange between humans and technology that emerges from hacking & queering interactions between the audience and tech along their shared interfaces. This generative energy flow is palpable for both sides- not only for the audience, but also for the technology and devices themselves. The center is intended as a regeneration space for all – from humans to smartphones. For Pleasure is not (only) hedonistic enjoyment, but also a political strategy!

During their entire stay at the center, the audience only interacts with tech. They are accompanied by the chatbot Hot_Bot, which offers individualized suggestions for their visit via Telegram. Depending on the interests and decisions made, the dramaturgy varies – the stay at the center looks different for each person.

The narration goes: Whenever a body or tech feels Digital Pleasure during a treatment, this Pleasure Energy is fed into the Center via its networks and routers. Once a certain intensity is reached, the energy is released back into the space by the performers of the dgtl fmnsm collective in the form of Pleasure Rituals.

Through the performative interactions in the treatments, the boundaries between humans and technology are questioned, as well as the homogenous perspective of human experiences in techno-capitalist neoliberalism. 

Duration: 90 Min

Language: English

“ALL BODIES ARE IMAGINATIVE. ALL BODIES ARE CONVOLUTED”

“REGENERATE YOUR PIXELS AND CELLS”

”PLEASURE FLOWS BOTH WAYS”