LORECORPS

2026 Performance Coproduction with HAU Hebbel am Ufer, 2026
An avatar in a cropped jacket and pleated skirt runs down the red carpet of a sunlit virtual gothic cathedral

Game still

Even when we sleep, we transmit data.

We are surrounded by systems that count, catalogue, compare and calculate us. Algorithmic oracles promise security and provide control. But what myths surround these systems? LORECORPS is a computer game essay brought to life by a gamer, a musician and a robot cat.

The immersive experience delves into the machinery of myth-making surrounding the powerful tech companies and looks into the reflective surfaces of the gadgets that surround us in order to see what is happening in plain sight: the creeping convergence of algorithmic control and far-right ideology, the death of the old internet and the rise of techno-fascism.

LORECORPS evolved from LORECORE, a live computer game essay co-produced by HAU Hebbel am Ufer.

Two performers at a table of laptops and controllers play the game live
Photo: Yvonne Hartmann
A cinema audience watches a projected game world, a desolate road leading to a launch site, subtitle reading 'The entrepreneur begins covering the lower atmosphere of planet Earth'
Photo: Yvonne Hartmann
A pink cat-faced cottage surrounded by mushrooms glows in a dark virtual forest under a red sky, a small hooded figure beside it
Game still
Chrome gothic letters spelling LORECORE in front of a glowing vortex and smoking braziers in a cave
Game still

Companion works

Three performers in black arch backwards on a mirror-like floor in front of a projected sea
LORECORE 2026

Credits

  • Artistic direction, text & gamer: Anan Fries
  • Composition & live music: Ricardo Eizirik / auto_timer
  • Research & concept: Jette Büchsenschütz, Anan Fries, Cenk Güzelis
  • XR design: Me AndOther Me
  • Dramaturgy: Jette Büchsenschütz
  • Additional text: Morgane Billuart
  • Photos: Yvonne Hartmann
  • Production: Hairygaze GbR
  • Co-production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer
  • Funded by: Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media

Shown at

  • Diametrale, Innsbruck, 2026
  • Pop-Kultur Festival Berlin, 2026