kondition pluriel

kondition pluriel is an interdisciplinary digital performance group founded by choreographer Marie-Claude Poulin and media artist Martin Kusch in 2000. Integrating body-based performance and digital arts, the artists generate a language outside of established disciplines, focusing as much on the process as on the artistic product. They create ground-breaking, exceptional experiences at the intersection of installation and live performance, where spectators are often invited to play an active part. Using a wide range of cutting-edge tech tools, the group has created ambulatory installations in which dancing bodies interact with real-time media; telematic experiences for one spectator at a time; immersive performances with culinary tastings; urban performances integrating GPS guides; and fulldome, VR, AR and MR installation-performances. Predominant themes are the transformation of the mediatized body; the paranoia brought on by the hyper-surveillance; and sensory exacerbation engendered by today’s technologies.
A pioneer in the field of digital performance in Canada, the group has toured its works in museums, theaters, and galleries around the world and has been involved in artistic research projects and the development of technological tools tailored to its creative needs. The works of kondition pluriel are presented worldwide, including at: Ars Electronica Linz, CYNETart Hellerau, International Symposium for Electronic Arts (ISEA), Havana Biennale, Moscow
Biennale, ICA London, Experimental Performing Arts Centre (EMPAC), ITAU Cultural Saõ Paulo, National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, MAK Vienna, Society for Arts and Technology [SAT] Montreal, RobotLove Eindhoven, Centre for Art and Media | ZKM, and Transmediale Berlin.

In 2021 the works At Play, Diver, Future Room and Swarming Lounge toured in Canada, Spain, China and Portugal, at several venues including the Etopia Center for Art & Technology in Zaragoza and the festival Criatech in Aveiro.

In 2020, artistic director of kondition pluriel, Martin Kusch, curated the fulldome program Immersive Fields in which Liminal Spaces, Future Room and Inner Voices were presented at the Ars Electronica festival in Austria.

In 2018-2019, the works Enjeux, Swarming Lounge, and Diver were presented at ROBOTLOVE in the Netherlands, the Havana Biennial and the World Animation Festival ANIMAFEST Zagreb in Croatia, amongst other tours.

In 2017 kondition pluriel presented Future Room which was commissioned by Peter Weibel and Gerald Bast, co-created for the Aesthetics of Change Exhibition, at the Museum for Applied Arts (MAK) in Vienna and subsequently toured internationally.

In 2016, the company took part in the Digital Synesthesia research project, developing the works At Play and Diver. Both works were presented in the AIL Vienna and at ISEA Hong Kong.

In 2015, Enjeux premiered at the Convergence Summit on Arts and Technology. The work later toured internationally, including at the Games as performing arts festival in the UK.

From 2014 to 2015, kondition pluriel designed and co-directed the European Mobile Dome Lab for Artistic Research (E / M / D / L), an international artistic-research project, under which Liminal Spaces was co-created with Ruth Schnell and artists from Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau and presented at the Festspielhaus Hellerau, in Germany, and at the iX Symposium in Canada.

Between 2012 and 2015, the series Digital accidents was developed and presented at various exhibitions including the Moscow Biennale, in Russia and at the Lalit Kala Academy in India.

In 2012, kondition pluriel was the recipient of an award for the immersive film Inner Voices at the Fulldome Jena festival, Germany. Inner Voices was screened in several fulldome festivals around the world including the CURRENTS New Media Festival in Santa-Fe and exhibited at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens.

In 2011, the company inaugurated the Satosphere immersive theater of the Society for Arts and Technology [SAT] with Intérieur in Montreal.

In 2010, the installation Abandoned was presented in Museumsquartier in Vienna and at the Gallery Articule in Montreal.


Between 2006 and 2008, the puppet(s) and passage were presented at Agora de la danse and Mois Multi in Canada, at the festival Bains Numériques in France, at the Festspielhaus Hellerau and at the Pommersches Landesmuseum in Germany, amongst other venues.

In 2006, kondition pluriel presented entre-deux as a pre-inaugural performance of the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) in Troy (NY).

In 2004, Myriorama was created with ambient.tv.net and presented at ISEA2004 in Helsinki.

In 2003, recombinant was coproduced with Banff new media institute, later on touring internationally in various countries, including Italy, Switzerland, Canada and Portugal. It was also presented at the Agora de la danse and Mois Multi in Canada and at the ZKM in Germany.

In 2002, entre-deux was first premiered at the MAI02 event, in Ville St. Laurent/Montreal and later on toured in several venues, including those in the U.S, in Japan and Germany.

In 2001-2002, schème toured in Europe, Asia, North and South America and shown at venues such as the Ménagerie de Verre in Paris, the ICA in London, ITAU Cultural in Saõ Paulo, the Transmediale in Berlin and ISEA Nagoya in Japan.

In 2000, Marie-Claude Poulin and Martin Kusch founded the artistic company kondition pluriel while developing their first work, schème, in partnership with Die TheaterWien in Vienna, the Society for Arts and Technology [SAT], the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology and the Festival International de Nouvelle Danse (FIND) in Montreal.

1999 Marie-Claude Poulin and Martin Kusch started working together in Berlin in the transdisciplinary co-creation project body/technology, organized by Theater der Welt/Berlin, and Future Physical/London.