Program: Latence

LPM Live Performers Meeting LPM 2026 Rome
Edition XXVII October 22nd > 25th 2026 | Rome
Audio Visual Performing Artists Meeting
ottobre, 22º 2026, 3:00 pm | ottobre, 26º 2026, 2:00 am
October 22 - 25, 2026
MAM — Media Art Museum, Rome Italy, Rome, Italy
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Latence

Live Immersive

Duration: 20 min.

Friday, 23 October 2026 | 23:00 > 23:20 | MAM Immersive Room

"Imagine you are falling. But there is no ground". — Hito Steyerl

Latence is a single continuous descent into one image. It lasts thirty minutes and never arrives.
Each time the image should resolve — the moment when detail finally delivers the thing — it does not: it produces more coast. Photograph becomes grain, grain becomes crystal, crystal becomes noise, and the noise turns out to be another landscape. James Bridle calls this condition apophenia: more data, less comprehension. Measuring a coastline does not shorten it.
Linear perspective assumes a motionless spectator and a stable horizon. The latent space offers neither. Inspired by the Situationist’s concept of dérive—an unplanned journey through a landscape, “a technique of rapid passage through varied ambiances”—we explore the unknown corners of the Artificial Intelligence's in order to find ourselves back again.
Two performers, two machines, one loop.
Neither of us decides alone where to go next.
A thirty-minute drive into an image that never resolves.

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