Admiror, or Revolutionary Sentiments is a collaborative audiovisual performance by artists Bahar Noorizadeh and Klara Kofen. The work stages five episodic dialogues on the sentimental logic of capitalism and their revolutionary dialectical doubles. Admiror departs from the imaginative, emotional role-play underpinning modern market relations, and evolves into LARPing ideas around the revolutionary subject and theories of contingency and change.

The performance tracks the transformation of the mechanics of imagination from the body to the market, exploring the dialectics of structure according to models derived from European enlightenment and of the speculative that artificial intelligence is today aspiring to. In doing this, the work attempts to understand the affective underbelly of these structures, their inherent mysticism, and desirous qualities. By mapping the process of ‘rehearsing new models’ onto the ever-shortening window afforded us by climate change, Admiror tries to articulate new ways for thinking through the subject of revolution.

Commissioned by BEK (2023)
Presentations:
BEK’s symposium The Only Lasting Truth is Change in Bergen, Norway (2023)
Medialab Matadero for OpenLAB#3 Mentes sintéticas, Spain (2024)

This work is available for touring.
Contact for Presentations: bek@bek.no