Performance
“Latenz” aims to disrupt the illusion of synchronicity between sound and image in everyday media constructions, shifting attention to the space between event and reaction, where cause and effect merge into new contexts. The digital space of “Latenz” suspends temporal states such as past, present, and future: a vocal event occurs in the now while simultaneously being archived, creating a doubling of reality in which the human body loses its relevance as a point of reference for privacy and agency. Instead, it becomes significant only as a continuous producer of data disintegrating into individual data fragments that are collected and reconnected to generate new meanings. Dialogical, and thus social, relationships are increasingly initiated and mediated through technology, while the permeable membrane of the technical device serves as the interface between offline and online worlds.
Verena Lercher’s artistic practice centres on a techno-cognitive engagement with artificial voice-sound phenomena to construct vocal identities as a poetic navigation between the private and public, the human and the technological, the body and the algorithm. Her work has been presented internationally, including at the New York Electronic Music Festival, Kontakte Festival Berlin, steirischer herbst Graz, EXIT-club Glasgow, and the Singapore Art Museum. Research fellowships have also taken her to Tokyo, Bangalore, and Chicago. In 2025, she completed her PhD entitled “Sounding Out Identities of Artificial Voice.”
Webpage: www.verenalercher.com
lnstagram: @verena_lercher
Symposium: October 16. 3 pm / Flutgraben
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