HYPERTROVE

performance stage co-created with Enrica Arbia

Project Space SIGN in Groningen asked Enrica Arbia and me to curate and produce an event for the art side program of the music showcase festival Eurosonic Noorderslag and "Talent van Hier" in 2024. We invited a multidisciplinary group of artists who bridged the lines between art, music, and performance. The event has three editions, and they took place on 20.01.2024, 18.01.2025, and 17.01.2026 in Groningen.

HYPERTROVE

artists

〰 Ötza 𓍯 Il teatrino dell'Irrequieto 𓏲 Ruggero di Luisi╰ NDNMK Solutions ∿ Vieze Meisje 𓂅 Ether Infinity 𓂃𓈒

𓆰 Elif Satanaya Özbay 𓆹 Sergi Casero ༗ Magdalena Petrova 𓇚 Ksenia Perek 𓇬 Giek from Reality Cult 𓄟 Eigen Risico

𖤓 Adrenalina𓂃𓈒 𖧧 Alaa Shehada ⦑ echo+seashell ⦒ ⎛Greta Ona⎠ 『Mette Sterre』 ⧼Renée van Trier⧽ ⦉group-ensemble⦊

⸨Rebecca Lillich // Krüger + Ahmad Mallah⸩ ˖𓂃𓈒Rat Boyfriend ⊹ ࣪SPLINK

Hyperreal, hyperpop, hypermeta, hyperdata. Life as we know it is blowing out of proportion. The cyber-world collects our souls and urges us to keep up. Social and self-transformation are part of everyday conversations. It is all too much and sometimes we also want to dance. We are all together in this chaos of abundance, keeping hold of our identities while questioning and liquifying them.

We will look into each other’s desires and complexity, values, ethics, and existential thoughts. How can we remain individuals and not lose our identities within a shared, collective, and communal space? While searching for a place to be a part of, we still want to belong to ourselves. We will always search for a community, something to get a hold of, to grasp, by questioning our sanity, and our part in society. Life is too fast, it requires a lot from us. To keep moving forward, to keep together. HYPERTROVE is a stage for addressing personal and social environments, where we question reality, the fictional, the meta, ourselves, and each other. It is a daring place for us and the public to take part in a collective experience, connect within a hyper timeline, and go on a treasure trove with the hopes of finding answers.

The pillars that once upheld our certainties are now fully collapsing. The core has been rotting, and it’s now falling apart; now, more than ever, we seek safe spaces, connectivity, and something to grasp and hold on to. Time goes click-clock, too fast. It's a dizzy slope, it's all fleeting and profound, individual and collective; we become part of a hybrid spectatorship. As we oscillate between performance and music, experience and narrative, focused and overwhelmed attention, we try to keep moving forward, liquifying, and looking into each other’s desires, complexities, values, ethics, and existential thoughts.

HYPERTROVE III 17.01.2026

photography & video: Hector Garcia Martin

3D graphics: Enrica Arbia

mural exhibition "WALL PLUGS"