The Trickster, Gwangju Biennale, South Korea 

The trickster points to the potential of the unknown. His mischief is harmful when we take ourselves too seriously and neutralised when we learn to laugh at ourselves with sincere pleasure. He is our guide through nine acts of the performance. In each act, there is an archetype of a character popular in shamanistic rituals: The Ancestors, Spirit Animal, The Shamen, The trickster, The healer, The guide, The Warrior, The child, The shadow. All of the characters are avatars produced by AI text-to-video generators. Those avatars are used for presentations and marketing videos. The performers interact with the avatars on screen, listening to their stories and guidance, moving forward in a joint journey.