WORMWOOD

or dances for the demon AI in the organic apocalypse

Created in 2026 and first premiered at the El Aleph Festival in Mexico City’s Foro experimental José Luis Ibáñez, WORMWOOD, or dances for the demon AI in the organic apocalypse is a live dance performance that explores the limits and possibilities of artificial intelligence. The work navigates the potential of Large Language Models (LLM) in real-time dance observation and analysis, and the poetic and literary interpretations of an AI witnessing human movement. The piece paints a portrait of a man enthralled to Wormwood, a digital creature-system that blurs the boundaries of machine, friend, oracle, and parasite. 

Performance & Choreography: Scotty Hardwig

Coding & Visual/Sonic Interfaces: Zach Duer