Capeforce vi, Berlin, Germany

Act I

Act II

capeforce vi, Berlin, Germany. 2026

Commissioned by ACUD Galerie as part Venus in Three Movements Part I for Project Space Festival. Curated by Colette Patterson.

The sixth iteration arrived in Berlin in two ACTS, as part of ACUD Galerie's Venus in Three Movements Part One, presented within Project Space Festival 2026 on June 5th. ACT I unfolded at ACUD in Mitte as a sonically-choreographed open score. ACT II's location remained undisclosed until a secret webpage—accessible only through links circulated on social media and QR codes placed around the gallery—released the coordinates via countdown, one hour before ACT I began. The page itself was an experiment in emerging “the anomaly”, live only temporarily before disappearing. Coordinates also appeared in a collaborative screen print by Tabloid Press distributed after the first performance, alongside excerpts from the performance's guerrilla manifesto.

Capeforce is a site specific series of performances by Jordan Deal, 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 contested spaces.

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 , Musical Direction, Performance by Jordan Deal


Performed with:

Jordan Deal (performer / angel)

Cru Encarnação (performer / angel)

Hanna Hendrulat (voice, performer)

Cavid Dhen (saxophone / performer)

vFuturo | sophie v (impeccable driver)

DAKN (live sound design / technician / goat)

Logistical & planning support: Colette Patterson, Dalia Maini, Martina

Collaboration with Paola Lesina and HEARTtoFIND Vintage for fur coat work by Jordan Deal

Photo Credits: Camila Pozner

Video Credits: Sailesh Naidu

Video Credit: Sailesh Naidu.

Excerpts from full length video of ACT I of Capeforce vi, Berlin.