We, Brute Force is an 8-minute 180° stereoscopic VR dance miniature featuring two dancers from the New Human Body Society around Charlotte Triebus (Misha Ostenrath, Kevin Beyer). It takes as its starting point brute force as a strategy describing the systematic trial-and-error use of force in both algorithms and warfare.

The work negotiates guilt and innocence as a suspended state between subjects and non-human agency in the age of AI. The choreography presents the human being in a tender act of saliva, fallibility, and falling, within an immersive staging featuring costumes by Flora Miranda.

The auditory layers translate the work into additional languages. Text layers, rhythmic shifts and narrative fragments, together with entangled algorithms, reveal brute force as a poetic method that, through its very impossibility, searches for meaning, sense, and protection.

We, Brute Force will be presented as a sneak preview at the Kölnischer Kunstverein the 27th and 28th of March 2026.

Credits

We, Brute Force
Charlotte Triebus

Producer SYNAESTHETICA
Co-Producer MIREVI
in colaboration with NHBS

Art Direction and Choreography Charlotte Triebus
Dance, Research Misha Ostenrath, Kevin Beyer
Dramaturgical Voice Emily Binding, Constanze Fröhlich
Costume Flora Miranda
Producer Benedict Mirow, Bashira Cabbara
VR Direction Benedict Mirow
VR Camera Amadeus Hiller
Camera Mika Champs
Set Photography Emily Binding
Research Assistant Tabby Flynn