Apotheosis is a collabration between Sydney artists Serwah Attafuah and Soft Centre, commissioned by Sydney Opera House.

Apotheosis is a real-time motion capture performance, in which movement artist Lydia Kivela explores a hyper-real 3D environment created by Serwah Attafuah, accompanied by an original score, performed live, by ptwiggs. Inspired by the glaring neon ambience of Spring Breakers and cyberpunk, Apotheosis ushers audiences through a hallucinogenic dreamscape populated by demons, abandoned Western Sydney landmarks and NPC doomers. 

Serwah Attafuah’s animation style has been celebrated internationally and recently garnered considerable attention in the NFT space. Apotheosis was the first ever presentation of Serwah’s work with real-time functionality, testing the exciting new applications of motion capture technology to live performance.

Photography by Billy Zammit.

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