AFTERLIFE
AFTERLIFE (2023) was a production by the duo ONLY SLIME. AFTERLIFE was premiered at Black Box teater in Oslo.
Created and performed by Claudia Cox and Tobias Pfeil.
Video documentation of the production can be seen here.
Information
(Objekt ID 147899)| Object type | Production |
| Premiere | April 20, 2024 |
| Produced by | |
| Audience | Youth, Adults (from 15) |
| Language | English |
| Keywords | Digital production, Animation, Fantasy, Music, Opera, Multidisciplinary, Video |
| Running period | 2023 — June 25, 2025 |
| Duration | 105 minutes |
| Website | Black Box Teater, ONLYSLIME |
| Last changed | 29.10.2025 |
| Create date | 20.04.2024 |
Requirements to venue
| Last changed | 29.10.2025 |
| Create date | 20.04.2024 |
AFTERLIFE is a computer game opera in which two performers on stage control two avatars with the help of movement-capture technology in a video-projected 3D universe.
The performance includes strobe lighting.
+ Saturday 20 April: Premiere party with DJ set
DJta9ta9 played psychedelic anime music + japanese 80s synth wave disco
+ Sunday 21 April: Aftertalk with Tobi Pfeil and Claudia Cox
Tobi Pfeil and Claudia Cox in conversation with Anna Penkova after the performance
The artists’ description of the production:
""AFTERLIFE" is not just an artistic exploration of what lies beyond life and how we make meaning of it all, it is also an attempt to communicate and convey the sense of bodily disconnection and bliss experienced in the midst of the accident, or at a person's time of death. Some things are simply too weird to be explained in words. So we did our best to create a stage piece, or a “computer game opera” that invites you into the surreal and magical world of that very moment. Relying on our references from gaming and growing up with everything from Wagner to Enya, the piece uses real-time motion capture technology, simulation spaces (the whole visual aspect of the piece runs in a computer game we coded ourselves in Unreal Engine) and heavy alienation of the body and voice through electronics, sensors and auto-tune to musically explore a sense of universal identification with passion and love for life, as well as a total disconnect to this world and our bodies. In terms of composition, nothing is left to chance and the entire piece is composed from A to Z on a fixed timeline."
Funded by: Norwegian Centre for New Playwriting (Dramatikkens hus), Furestiftelsen, Arts Council Norway, The Cultural Schoolbag (DKS), Fond for lyd og bilde, Komponistenes vederlagsfond, Norsk komponistforening
SOURCES:
Imported from scenekunst.no, 20.01.2025
Black Box Teater, www.blackbox.no, 19.04.24, https://blackbox.no/nb/afterlife-1/
Black Box teater’s archive, 2025
Norsk Komponistforening (The Norwegian Society of Composers), 06.02.2025, https://komponist.no/aktuelt/nominert-til-arets-verk-afterlife-av-only-slime
Only Slime, 07.02.2025, https://tobipfeil.com/afterlife
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Claudia Cox | – Text |
| Tobias Pfeil | – Text |
| Claudia Cox | – Concept/Idea |
| Tobias Pfeil | – Concept/Idea |
| Claudia Cox | – Composer |
| Tobias Pfeil | – Composer |
| Diego Muhr | – Lighting design |
| Claudia Cox | – Animation (3D-animasjon) |
| Tobias Pfeil | – Animation (3D-animasjon) |
| Claudia Cox | – Performer |
| Tobias Pfeil | – Performer |
| Tobias Pfeil | – Musician |
| Claudia Cox | – Programming |
| Tobias Pfeil | – Programming |
| Diego Muhr | – Technician |
| Diego Muhr | – Consultant |
| June 25, 2025 (Sibiu International Theater Festival) | Show |
| February 21, 2025 – Scene 3 (tidligere Prøvesalen), Det Norske Teatret, The Norwegian Theatre | Show |
| February 20, 2025 – Scene 3 (tidligere Prøvesalen), Det Norske Teatret, The Norwegian Theatre | Show |
| February 19, 2025 – Scene 3 (tidligere Prøvesalen), Det Norske Teatret, The Norwegian Theatre | Show |
| February 15, 2025 – Scene 3 (tidligere Prøvesalen), Det Norske Teatret, The Norwegian Theatre | Show |
| October 29, 2024 (Nordic Music Days) | Show |
| May 1, 2024 (Vårscenefest) | Show |
| April 21, 2024 19:00 – Store scene (Main stage), Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) | Show |
| April 20, 2024 19:00 – Store scene (Main stage), Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) | Worldwide premiere |
| 2023 – Forum HFMT, Hamburg | First performance |
| Sibiu International Theater Festival | June 25, 2025 |
| Nordic Music Days | October 29, 2024 |
| Vårscenefest | May 1, 2024 |