2025 - TATE BRITAIN x hervisions

Ruled by Venus

A girl chats with her scorching twin and future murderer, seeking out answers to her drive to scrape the world’s surfaces for fateful signs. A performative reading incorporating user-generated subliminal content, song lyrics, and material from a forthcoming erotic thriller. Delivered with synthetic voice, CGI film, and an experimental score.

Commissioned for HERVISIONS at Tate Britain, London, curated by Trâm Nguyễn and Zaiba Jabbar. Performed again at Raven Row, London, curated by Clo Page.

READING with video projection and original score, 25 mins
Score · oxhy ☾ film direction · Carlo Quicho ☾ SPECIAL THANKS TO ANNA ENGELHARDT
Photography · Dan Weill for late at tate britain & CLO PAGE FOR RAVEN ROW

2024-25 -TRANSMEDIALE

She’s Evil

She’s Evil, Most Definitively Subliminal sees Alex Quicho and Noura Tafeche enter the theatre of psychological operations online – because physical wounds heal – and lay out the girl artillery, from IDF e-girls to DIY subliminals. At this intersection of asymmetrical warfare and individualistic self-development, the battle is fought via seduction, influence, disruption, and confusion.

Commissioned for Transmediale 2024: You’re Doing Amazing Sweetie. Reviewed by Spike Magazine. Performed again for A*LIVE: Radical Cuteness at Museu de l’art Prohibit, Barcelona and Are You A Software Update? at Aksioma, Ljubljana.

Collaborative performance with Noura Tafeche
Two-channel projection with found subliminal audio, 30 mins
Photography by Laura Fiorio for transmediale /
domen pal for aksioma
With thanks to Jade Barget, Nóra Ó Murchú and Kasia Wlaszczyk

2023 - ESPACE NIEMEYER

Reality Surf

Two-headed carabao calf Eleuterio Jr. — preserved by an ecocult and reanimated as the mascot of a demilitarised Mischief Reef — recounts his devotion to the super-storm that killed him. The second live sequel to Alley to Heaven, performed using a projected low-poly environment, voice transformer and vroid avatar.

Commissioned for Daisy World at Espace Niemeyer, Paris as part of The Well Tempered, a programme of atmospheres and atmospherics curated by Jade Barget with Saki Hibino.

READING with video projection, 23 mins
Score · Libya Montes & Rayce Vaughn ☾ Virtual Cinematography · Carlo Quicho ☾ 3D Artist · Farid Mammadov ☾ Environment Design · Sagar Chavda ☾ Photography · Martin Lazlo Rouillé

2023 - SOFT POWER

Bad Omens

Disaster-sensing nanosatellite MAYA-8 experiences machine psychosis and falls in love with all her data labellers at once. The first live sequel to Alley to Heaven, performed using a projected low-poly environment and livestreamed avatar.

Commissioned for Omen Central at Soft Power, Berlin as part of The Well Tempered, a programme of atmospheres and atmospherics curated by Jade Barget with Saki Hibino. Performed again for Margins United at EartH, London.

PERFORMANCE with livestreamed projection, 17 mins
Score · Mercyboyz ☾ Virtual Cinematography · Carlo Quicho ☾ 3D Artist · Farid Mammadov ☾ Environment Design · Sagar Chavda ☾ Photography · Sonia Rybak

2023 · STANLEY PICKER

Alley to Heaven

Three nonhuman agents — a coral polyp swarm, a two-headed carabao calf, and a sparrow-nanosatellite hybrid — reflect on an artificial island’s ecology, history, and geopolitical status within the contested territory of the South China / West Philippine Sea.

Commissioned for A World of Islands, an exhibition curated by Ligaya Salazar at Stanley Picker Gallery, London. A World of Islands considers the movement of indigenous knowledge, practices, materials and people, and historical and current fabrications of tropical utopia and dystopia.

Exhibited at Sérum Radiance, curated by Jade Barget at Fondation Fiminico, Paris. The exhibition brings together a selection of works on the development and study of ecosystems, with works highlighting the toxic ecologies of which humanity is an integral part.

Single-channel video with CGI, vroid avatars, and found footage, 19 mins
Directed by Alex Quicho & Carlo Quicho
Design · Javier Syquia ☾ Score · Libya Montes ☾ Virtual Cinematography · Carlo Quicho ☾ 3D Artist · Farid Mammadov ☾ Environment Design · Sagar Chavda ☾ Additional Score and Sound Design · Rayce Vaughn ☾ Colourist · Cam McCutcheon