R.I.P. – Ceremony

2025 Performance
A performer in black with a cap stretches one arm out in front of a projected dark, glistening arch, a second performer seated in the background

Photo: Dorothea Tuch

R.I.P. – Ceremony is a smaller-scale, easier-to-install version of R.I.P. – Resurrect in Peace (2023/24).

Two performers, a back projection and a motion tracking system connected to a digital environment collaborate here to perform a ritual for an extinct bird.

Two performers face each other holding tracking devices before a projected thorn wreath on mossy stone, a thorn wreath lit on the floor
Photo: Dorothea Tuch
A performer in silhouette lets soil run through lit hands in front of projected giant passenger pigeons
Photo: Dorothea Tuch
One performer raises a tracker skyward while the other kneels beside a lit thorn wreath, a projected bird skull between pine branches behind
Photo: Dorothea Tuch
One performer stands with an arm raised high while the other crouches low behind, in front of a projected cloudy sky
Photo: Dorothea Tuch

Companion works

Three performers in layered grey rags move between mounds of pale earth in front of projected cloudy skies, audience in the foreground
R.I.P. – Resurrect in Peace 2023–24
A glossy, dripping white arch rises above mossy rocks in a dark virtual pine forest under a stormy sky
R.I.P. – Redemption 2024

Credits

  • Concept: Anan Fries
  • Performance: Anan Fries, Karol Tyminski
  • Technical artist: Irina Shutova
  • Composition: Malu Peeters
  • Costumes: Mean Goddess

Shown at

  • REFRESH, ZHdK Zürich, 2025
  • HAU Digital Art Showcase, HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, 2025