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Will you dance with me?! (2017) [Porto, Portugal - Berlin, Germany]
2017.02.17 – Vorspiel Transmediale 2017 organized by Flee Immediately! (in collaboration with Joana Chicau) at Panke Gallery
Telematic experience using videoconferencing online tools and broadcasting software, this work addresses (and continues) the possibilities investigated over the course of three years, along with artist Lisa Parra, in LAND PROJECT.
This first experiment that took place at Transmediale Vorspiel 2017 intended testing computer performance and audience reaction towards the development of a durational experience.
Photo by Franco Dubini
Following the work developed within LAND PROJECT and more specifically the practice of combining two remote locations in the same frame, the main purpose is to perceive the computer screen as the intersection point where remote bodies find ways to engage in a dance/movement together, experimenting on adjusting one’s position, location and sense of presence while physically separated.
One-on-one participants are invited to dance lonesomeness together to the sound of a version of Elvis Presley’s “Are You Lonesome Tonight”.
Also interested on starting to address the subject of distributed location of the self this work is also included on Daniel Pinheiro’s project TRANSCODING - a series of works dedicated to explore the internet, its affections, and representations of human agency in a multiplied, transitory and fractalized nature.
More on the event:
This experiment was possible through the invitation of Joana Chicau – Media designer, researcher and performer – to be part of the program developed by Flee Immediately! for Vorspiel Transmediale 2017, presenting a series of workshops and performances at Panke exploring and experimenting with choreographic relations and code, from bodies of code to actual bodies, from digital deviations to physical ones. The event series was part of a larger collaboration and research around the relationships between dance, bodies, and code that began in Flee Immediately! issue 02.
For the development:
Technical details:
- [Remote Country]: computer, webcam*, internet connection, zoom.us (software installed), sound speakers on, video projector.
- [Country of origin]: computer, webcam, internet connection, zoom.us (software installed), second monitor, OBS (open broadcaster software),
*the webcam (in-built or usb) should be facing an empty space with a chair (like in the image), preferably white, empty space / The video projection should be opposite to where the participant is standing in order to view in a larger image the combination of the two feeds.
Instructions:
Each participant is invited to seat on the chair and “dance” remotely with the artist(s). The sound cues will inform the participants and the artist(s) will be waiting for the next one. The performance will run for 1hour.
Links:
Joana Chicau – Media designer, researcher and performer:
Flee Links:
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