about

I’m Jove Spucchi, an artist and systems builder working through performance, ritual, sound, computation, and queer nightlife. I ask how we deconstruct and construct ourselves: by becoming aware of systems, dismantling them, working within them, or working without them. Technical experience, psychoanalytic questioning, and spiritual and occult knowledge shape this inquiry. I work within the communities and practices that inform this inquiry as an organizer, performer, collaborator and participant.

That inquiry also shapes my work on the web, where I build shared spaces and software for gathering, devotion and experiments in intelligence and attention.

Identity is something magical we create and actively participate in. Desire is a muscle.

My work takes different forms, from sustained ritual practice and collaborative dramaturgy to video and music. I compose the music and sound for my own video pieces and make standalone audio work; painting is also part of my studio practice. Each medium leaves room for its own questions and possibilities.

YOLOROBICS is an ongoing ritual practice rooted in queer nightlife. I shape gatherings through music, space, visual design and ritual, then participate in what unfolds.

Movement Temple is a video and installation that brings dancers’ movements into one shifting mass of bodies. I used pose extraction to abstract recordings from YOLOROBICS, preserving the gathering’s privacy while giving form to the dance floor as a shared body. I created the visuals and composed, recorded and produced the score. I also appear as a dancer and DJ in some of the source footage.

In boycow, I contribute dramaturgy and technical consultation to an ongoing collaboration with Cornelius. I bring knowledge of Hellenic myth and ritual to the work’s conceptual development. My dramaturgical contributions include text and editing, accents, dialect and vocal delivery, staging, and the use of repetition and loops.

A participant enters spiritMesh by naming a desire, an obstacle, and a symbolic offering. A custom GPT uses these inputs to generate interactive material and actions for a ritual. I made it to explore how a changing narrative might become a way of working with desire and spiritual agency. I wrote system instructions to turn abstract desires into nodes, links and interactive HTML/CSS. The recorded interface demonstration documents the 2024 work.

My current research explores AI as an accessibility tool, performance accessibility, and sensory augmentation. I’m investigating how mediation can support participation, and when it becomes interruptive. This inquiry is developing through research and experimentation; its fuller expression in completed artworks is still ahead. Studio notes document work in development.

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