From the Greek "place of forbidden access", the installation "Ádyton" proposes an immersive experience on the idea of Europe since its conception. To do so, it builds a virtual Delphi Oracle, a mystical and primordial space far from the contemporary and Eurocentric burdens that accompany us. What if we discover that Europe was conceived from otherness, from that which is distant and strange? The work of Óscar Escudero and Belenish Moreno-Gil recreates a journey through time, a journey that will act as an oracle to guide us as we explore the ideas of center and identity from the strictest individuality, just as visitors did in the Temple of Apollo in antiquity.

The viewer will encounter a series of virtual reality spaces that incorporate dramaturgy, music technology and other aesthetic elements, designed to facilitate a fully immersive experience, capable of making us relive the primordial void necessary to understand Europe from the myth of Cadme, and the etymological origin of the word, suggesting a Europe projected from the distant gaze of the other.

Through a journey through time, the work enables the discovery of Europe, freeing us from the idea of a historical and cultural center, thus allowing us to (re)live its conception. Escudero and Moreno-Gil ask "What if Europe did not exist as a center? What if we could understand Europe from otherness?"

"Adython" is part of the Diffractions 2023 Cycle programming, focused this year on the idea of reinterpretation. Specifically, "Ádython" works on our ability to revive the conception of Europe, freeing us from centuries of Eurocentrism, posing new narratives through art, music and new technologies as a tool to revive distant realities.

Difracciones is a cycle that explores new relationships between the different actors within the classical and contemporary world, through a series of proposals that bring together new profiles of creators and enable new relationships with the public, having, as a central axis, the commitment to local talent and the decentralization of the avant-garde throughout the territory.

Links of interest:

https://www.clammymusictheater.com/

https://www.belenishmorenogil.com/

https://oscar-escudero.com/

Óscar Escudero and la Belenish Moreno-Gil / ÁDYTON 

Composition, video and audio production, connectivity, stage direction and costumes: Belenish Moreno-Gil & Óscar Escudero

Actors: Solomía Antonyak & Konrad Markowski

Voice: Irene Martín Guillén

Make-up: Bea Escribano

Lighting: Gemma Escribano

Production assistant: Claudia Álvarez Fernández

Belenish Moreno-Gil (Jerez de la Frontera, 1993) and Óscar Escudero (Alcázar de San Juan, 1992) are a pair of post-composers whose productions work in the gap between technology and life, revisiting History from a post-digital perspective and creating works that operate in what they call the "SPAM reality" in which we are immersed.

Their works have been commissioned and premiered at the most prestigious European festivals in the field of contemporary music creation such as Kunstfest Weimar, Munich Biennale of Music Theatre, Wien Modern
of Musical Theatre, Wien Modern, Rainy Days of Luxembourg, Warsaw Autumn Festival, Rotterdam Operadagen, Heidelberger Frühling, L'Auditori de Barcelona or Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid). Likewise, their work has been recognized with multiple awards at national and international level such as the Prix Ars Electronica 2021, Giga-Hertz Preis 2018 (ZKM, SWR EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO), Busoni Förderpreis 2017 (Berlin Academy of Arts) and the Premio Jóvenes Compositores SGAE-CNDM 2015 (Ministerio de Cultura). Escudero and Moreno-Gil are co-directors of CLAMMY, an ensemble and YouTube channel dedicated to the production and dissemination of new contemporary music theater creation.