28 May 2026. For ITINERANT INTERLUDE #18, Ana Kavalis and Emilio Gordoa took a deep dive into the mechanics and aesthetics of CUBATURE: The Art Game. Rather than illustrating the exhibition, they entered its world as a live activation of its logic. Drawing from the installation’s language, structures, and analog game aesthetics, the performance unfolds as a shifting dialogue between body, rhythm, instruction, and resistance. Movement and sound are not polished into seamless illusion; instead, they retain the texture of process — improvised, tactile, and materially present. The cube, CUBATURE’s basic module, appears less as an object than as a condition: a physical and psychological space of repetition, containment, and projection, unfolding within a distinctly Lynchian universe. The body measures itself against invisible borders. Rhythms loop, collide, and reset. Percussion and electronics create systems that the dancer inhabits, resists, and rewrites in real time. As in the exhibition, rules exist, but they remain unstable; participation alters the outcome.
In CUBATURE, entering the cube means becoming part of the system: your presence changes image, rhythm, and outcome. But what if the participant refuses the role? What if improvisation itself becomes a form of disobedience? What if the game says live here — and the body answers: Who said I have to?
CUBATURE was created by the Polish Indie-Studio Cyber Kids on Real, Dominik Cymer and Oliwia Hajn.
Ana Kavalis is a Cuban-German interdisciplinary artist based in Berlin. She began her dance training in Havana and continued studies in acting and embodied performance in Uruguay and São Paulo. Since 2007, she has created dance-theater works at the intersection of movement, voice, and performance in solo and group formats. Since 2019, she has developed and taught Resonant Body®, her movement-voice practice, in studios across Berlin.
Emilio Gordoa is a Mexican sound artist, percussionist, curator, and composer based in Berlin since 2012. Active in the city’s Echtzeitmusik scene and the international avant-garde music community, his work spans solo and ensemble performance, sound installations, and compositions for film, theater, and dance. His practice explores sound and performance as primary means of expression through interdisciplinary collaboration and experimental approaches.
