“Mirror Mall” concept, creation, video game development, performance: Jira Duguid / “Mirror Mall” sound design, music composition: Kris Wratt / “LANDLORDS" concept, creation, video game development, sound design, performance: Gabriel Helfenstein / “((sycophant’s sky chart))” concept, creation, writing, performance: Chloê Langford / “((sycophant’s sky chart))” sound consultation, vocal training: Dylan Kerr / By and with: Fantasia Malware
Fantasia Malware
Feral Loop Fever
Part of “PLAYMODE.EXE”
- Game
- Performance
English /
approx. 80 mins.
Presenting video games in unique performative settings is the hallmark of the Berlin collective Fantasia Malware, who return to HAU in 2026 to present three new short performances. Inspired by video game streams on platforms like Twitch or YouTube, the group develops its own video games and plays them live in front of audiences, turning online modes of social interaction into a shared, physical experience. Each of the three performances combines the tradition of reading stories to an audience with video game technology and culture. The games navigate through stories about landlords, child-like jesters and Google spreadsheets.
“Mirror Mall: Into the Heavens” follows the journey of two child-like jesters who want to escape the Sun – an oppressive and controlling adult figure who dominates their world. The performance is based on experiences growing up queer in the Australian suburban Christian school system.
“LANDLORDS” is the story of one life told through five landlords. The game begins as a black-and-white pixelated poem and develops into a kaleidoscopic 3D dream.
"((sycophant’s sky chart))" is a multi-level text-based game written in Google Sheets. The performance navigates through three parallel worlds, minimal and immersive, coherent and discordant, fantastical and malfunctioning.
Fantasia Malware is an experimental video game collective consisting of Jira Duguid, Chloê Langford and Gabriel Helfenstein, based in Berlin. Together they develop and publish video games, live performances and software. Their most recent collective projects include “SEX! At Alexanderplatz”, “The Life of Saint Fiona Bianco Xena” and “Orchid Collecter”. Since 2024, the collective has been collaborating with HAU Hebbel am Ufer, jointly realising, among other things, the video game performance series “Fever Loop Fountain”.
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Price: 15 €, reduced 9 €
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Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the Alliance of International Production Houses.
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HAU3
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