About — Jove Spucchi
[ about ]
›role
Jove Spucchi is an artist and researcher working across performance, computation, ritual practice, and media systems. Their work examines how symbolic, technological, and embodied structures shape belief, subjectivity, and collective experience.
Rather than centering expression or identity, Spucchi's practice treats the artist as an operator—designing conditions, interfaces, and environments in which meaning emerges through participation, constraint, and repetition.
›practice
The work stages environments that span nightlife, embodied performance, and networked software systems. These environments are designed to operate in real time, foregrounding feedback, delay, and accumulation as primary mechanisms.
Across forms, the practice treats belief not as representation or metaphor, but as an operational force—produced, sustained, and transformed through systems of mediation. Projects resist resolution or optimization, allowing tension, contradiction, and symbolic slippage to remain legible.
›methods
Spucchi's methods combine dramaturgical thinking, ritual design, and technical system-building. Interfaces, algorithms, and synthetic language are approached as active agents rather than neutral tools, functioning alongside bodies, gestures, and symbols.
Alongside technical production, Spucchi maintains an ongoing ritual research practice involving group ritual, ecstatic movement, and sensory environment design. In these contexts, they act as facilitator and dramaturg, constructing frameworks for collective exploration rather than prescribing outcomes.
›lineage
The work draws from lineages in performance, ritual theory, psychoanalysis, and media studies, with particular attention to butoh, ekstasis, queer nightlife, and occult methodologies. These influences inform an approach to art-making that privileges process over product, embodiment over abstraction, and emergence over control.
Spucchi's practice remains in active dialogue with experimental performance traditions and contemporary theories of subjectivity, mediation, and collective experience.
›references
- – Victor Turner
- – Tatsumi Hijikata
- – Anna Halprin
- – Carl Abrahamsson
- – Genesis P-Orridge
- – Jacques Lacan
- – Jean Laplanche
- – Trevor Paglen
- – Cory Arcangel