Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou and Huntrezz Janos: DENTAXUVIA Chapter 1: Corporeal Conversations
about exhibition
Dentaxuvia is an XR project blending performance, games, augmented reality, interactive sculptures, and poetry. The artists invite you into their world – interact with their avatars, play their video game, and take them on a supernatural journey.
Press Release
DENTAXUVIA
Chapter 1: Corporeal Conversations
AR, Performance, Sculpture, Poetry, and Video Games
Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou and Huntrezz Janos
Co-Presented by Transfer Gallery
with support from Onassis ONX
November 16th, 2024 – January 18th, 2025
Opening reception: Saturday, November 16th, 2024
Closing reception: Saturday, January 18th, 2025
Off-Site Performance at Gray Area’s Grand Theater: January 11th, 2024
Shorter Statement
Dentaxuvia is an XR project blending performance, games, augmented reality, interactive sculptures, and poetry. The artists invite you into their world – interact with their avatars, play their video game, and take them on a supernatural journey.
Short Statement
Dentaxuvia is an expanded reality (XR) project, by Los Angeles based artists Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou and Huntrezz Janos that blends performance, games, augmented reality, interactive sculptures, and poetry in a science fiction visual explosion, complicating the boundaries between the tangible and the intangible. The artists invite audiences to inhabit their world, interact with their avatars, and play their video game, taking them on a supernatural journey in which boundaries prove to be fluid and identities, sites of transformation. In this way, Dentaxuvia presents an act of queer resistance, revealing that anyone can shed old skins and reclaim agency in the face of oppressive regimes.
Full Statement
Dentaxuvia is an expanded reality (XR) project, by Los Angeles based artists Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou and Huntrezz Janos, that blends performance, games, augmented reality, interactive sculptures, and poetry, in a science fiction visual explosion, complicating the boundaries between the tangible and the intangible. It began as a mixed reality live performance, which premiered at REDCAT Disney CalArts Theatre in 2023.
For their first solo show as a team, at Telematic, Antigoni & Huntrezz transform their theatrical performance into an interactive installation, inviting the audience to inhabit their environment, interact with their augmented reality avatars, and play their video game – assuming the roles of characters within the Dentaxuvia narrative, making each playthrough a unique performance.
The result is an act of queer resistance that takes audiences on a supernatural journey, igniting the belief that anyone can shed old skins and reclaim agency in the face of oppressive regimes.