Low Resolution Reflections is is both a performance piece and its digital twin. The piece sketches portraits of the artists – who grew up on online webcam chat sites – onto the stage. It is a grainy adaptation of the Narcissus myth and a study of the recurring desire for the performance of the self in both the tradition of art and online environments.

The starting point for the work was its makers' obsessive interest in self-portraiture and its tradition as well as a desire to explore the process of performance making through the lens of anonymity and randomness. Low Resolution Reflections imagines and imitates – it seeks to create an authentic copy of itself.

Concept and performance: Pauli Patinen ja Camilla Rantanen
Technical concept: Ville Tolvanen
Stage: working group
Sound: Pauli Kotilainen
Ehkä-production’s house dramaturg: Even Minn
Production: Ehkä-production and Patinen & Rantanen, in collaboration with the Regional Dance Centre of Western Finland
Supporters: City of Helsinki and Samuel Huber’s Art Foundation
Residencies: Ehkä-production/Contemporary Art Space Kutomo (Turku) and The Åland Archipelago Guest Artist Residence (Kökar)
Premiere: 30.11.2024 XS Festival/Contemporary Art Space Kutomo, Turku
Language: English
Duration: approx. 1 hour