Live Cinema performance by Shu Lea Cheang.
UKI is conceived as a sequel to Shu Lea Cheang's cyberpunk feature I.K.U. (2000, premiered at Sundance Film Festival). I.K.U. tells the story of GENOM Corp, an internet porn enterprise who dispatches I.K.U. coders to collect orgasm data. Made into mobilephone chip, GENOM introduces orgasm on the go and makes a huge profit. In post-netcrash UKI, the data deprived I.K.U. coders are dumped on the Etrashscape where coders, twitters, networkers crush and crashed. Exchanging sex for code, code sexing code, UKI as virus emerge while GENOM retreats to BioNet. Taking human body hostage, GENOM reformats blood cells into microcomputing ORGANISMO (organic orgasm). UKI, the virus, enacted to infect a city, propagated, mobilized to infiltrate BIONET, sabotage ORGANISMO and reclaim the lost orgasm data.
// FOR EMBEDDING GO TO THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE AT armitage.tv/wp-2011/uki-viral-performance-von-shu-lea-cheang/ //
On stage artists (Berlin)
Martin Backes martinbackes.com/
Servando Barreiro servandobarreiro.es
Christopher Fröhlich antialias.de/
Shu Lea Cheang mauvaiscontact.info/
Brendan Howell wintermute.org/brendan/
Peter Newman peter-newman.com/
João Pais endphase.net/
Jodi Rose singingbridges.net
Malte Steiner block4.com/
Domestic Violence
Cinema characters created and performed by:
Coder xYx [Laika]
UKI Krew [Agnese]
Coder XQ [Quimera Yan]
RUNNER Axia[Ceci Quimera]
UKI Marimacho [Florian Tokioss]
Coder madlilit [klau]
Agent Pony Boy[Patri]
UKI FANtasia [Maria Mitsopoulou]
Baby Queen [Marianissima]
Coder Lubna[Diana Pornoterrorista]
UKI Tripcall [Melina Peña]
UKI Octo-Pussy [Helen Lafloresta]
UKI Mosca [Idoia]
UKI Karo [Carolina]
Mutant Esteno & Lil [ Majo & Elena]
VirusSt.Maria [Maria Llopis]
Trash Mistress [Radíe Manssour]
