capeforce iii, Brussels, Belgium. 2025

Presented by Au Jus, Curated by Carina Erdmann. 

Capeforce is a site specific series of performances, staged as a shapeshifting opera. This work aims to test how speculative realities—emerging through sonic and physical interventions—might dramatize hauntological contradictions throughout site-specific architectures and space.

Expanding upon a movement toward a guerrilla manifesto and proposition, the work uses rupture and collision as improvisational and choreographic devices—embodying the pull of “black oil”, its devouring and anomalous gravity that rescores the compositions of architecture, participants, and witnesses caught within its force.

This performance research was supported by the MAPFund grant

Credits

Direction, Choreography, Text, Performance: Jordan Deal

Performance by and with: Stefa Govaa, Adriano W. Jensen, Amiri A., Chris A.

Videographer: Carina Erdmann

Planning and Logistical team: Jordan Deal, Carina Erdmann, Clementine Dubost, Maru Mushtrieva, Adriano W. Jensen

Past Capeforce Iterations

capeforce vi, Berlin, Germany (2026)

capeforce v, New York City, NY (2026)

capeforce iv, Istanbul, Turkey (2025)

capeforce iii, Brussels, Belgium (2025)

capeforce ii, Philadelphia, PA (2024)