‘Neo Literal ( The Quest for Lyft Experience)’ is an epic poem set in the near future with bureaucrats sitting in a cabinet war room around a table, discussing potential societal and global threats, and attempting to achieve resolutions. Join Generals Intellect, Election, Abstraction, Enquiry and Anxiety, in conversation with Senator Werktreue in a heated debate, presenting arguments and attempting conflict resolution. An absurdist Kraussian satire pointing towards contemporary discourse, or rather, a lack of it, in which plurality is reduced to limiting binaries, all space is monetized and politicized, Trojan horses hijack attempts at progress, and a wild west gig economy erodes safety nets, and increases social and financial precarity. All played out across a mediated space of the all seeing screen.

Written and performed by Steven Warwick
With original music by Steven Warwick

About Steven Warwick

Steven Warwick is a British artist, musician and writer residing in Berlin. His practice includes durational performance installations, plays and films using the construction of situations and language. He also makes music under his own name, and previously as Heatsick – his previous album, titled “MOI”, is out on PAN. He has performed music at Berghain, Issue Project Room, Trouw Amsterdam, Unsound Krakow, London Contemporary Music Festival, Mutek Mexico, Novas Frequencias Brazil, Warwick has exhibited work at Schinkel Pavilion, ICA London, SMK Copenhagen, the Modern Institute Glasgow, Cleopatras NYC, Balice Hertling NYC, Kinderhook; Caracas, and was artist in residence at Villa Aurora, Los Angeles 2015. His writing has appeared in Texte Zur Kunst, Urbanomic, Art Forum and Electronic Beats and has co-authored a book released on Primary Information.

Neo-Literal was presented at Perdu in Amsterdam in 2022, in a double bill with Ivan Cheng's 'Suns Hollow'. Both pieces were commissioned as part of the series 'Speaker, Broker, Stringer', curated by Arif Kornweitz.

'Speaker, Broker, Stringer' is kindly supported by the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts.

Photography by Carmen Gray.