ROTOR Venelin Shurelov [SubHuman Theatre]. Documentation of a performance, 2016/2019 Mechanics: Borislav Tonev [Bucky]

Venelin Shurelov’s works explore the transitional states of the human body by focusing on his marginalization. They also relate on decoding the language of modern myths and encoding them in new creatures, to the intersection between man and technology, human and subhuman as a sub-product of the social, political, economical and cultural situation. In ROTOR the figure is a body of gesture partially closed by function, partially released from the fiction.

In the border area between performance and installation I set up my action passing through two different phases. In the first part, starting from an empty stage, in front of the audience I build a facility, a sophisticated electro-mechanical kinetic mechanism. The second part takes place in the final 5 minutes and show the final merger between my body and the existing structure. Thus formed a hybrid body moving under the rules of automation, but is immersed in a fictional world. // V. S.