Julian Klein

In Brain study, the virtual journey does not go into outer space, but into our own centre. The installation brings light and sound into hidden, dark spaces and opens up to the audience what is actually inaccessible, what is actually closed: like a skullcap, the entrance to the lower stage of the Festspielhaus is drilled into and leads into the unfamiliar. Into the experiment: five interconnected brain players form a system, a brain model. In contact with the outside world, the festival and the audience, it can react as a living mechanism to stimuli, process perceptions and retrieve memories from its memory. And it has emotional states such as fear, joy, stress or euphoria. A virtual brain. An experimental system that basically behaves like a human being. Strange, strange, alive. The brain activity, the chemical and electronic energies of the players' brains are translated live into sound and light projections by means of an EEG measurement. The biological rhythms are reproduced unchanged: The pulses, beats and sounds of the brain form the rhythmic structure of the installation, the living system.