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LAND PROJECT / Mediated Motion
Archetypes of mediated motion across a distance and in relation to the screen
Lisa Parra ( @lisaparra ) & Daniel Pinheiro
Invited to perform at Festival DDD (Portugal) this encounter of LAND PROJECT was shown on April 26 connecting Casa da Arquitectura (Matosinhos, Portugal) and LaMaMa rehearsal studios (New York, US). Throughout February and April, Lisa and Daniel, picked up on the methodologies of their networked practice to develop yet another activation of a movement duet across a distance.
more information and video documentation here
more information on LAND PROJECT: http://landproject.tumblr.com
‘MEDIATED MOTION / LAND PROJECT - Moving Across Screens (Feb - Apr 2019)’ here
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This video compiles different versions of exploring ways of moving in front of a computer screen. Motion being mediated by the webcam and moving in relation to one’s framing within the screen.
The video is part of LAND PROJECT, developed in collaboration with Lisa Parra, while in residence for the presentation of another encounter Mediated Motion as part of Festival DDD (Dance Festival) in Portugal, in April 2019. More information in landproject.tumblr.com
The video contains excerpts of the full video/performance “Measurability” as seen here: vimeo.com/332523731
and is also part of TRANSCODING, a body of work composed of different objects that aim at reflecting the impact of technology on daily lives and exploring its affordances towards the development of artistic objects.
daniel-pinheiro.tumblr.com/internet
Hyperspace is a completely hybrid and promiscuous space where everything is intermingled and networked with everything else, a space where cultural and territorial markers have been deleted, a space marked by a total lack of distance. (…) Of course, the internet certainly has elements of hyperspace and speeds up global hyperculturization. Culture in a classic sense disappears in what is, so to speak, more cultural than culture, namely in hyperculture and in reality: as Baudrillard would put it, it disappears in what is more real than real, namely in hyper-reality. #electronicpanopticon (Byung-Chul Ha)
LAND PROJECT moves forward questioning the strong sense of everything that lacks or, in fact, moves at the rhythm of how the internet shapes the identity of a relationship based on encounters and discussions, a relationship that is lit every time onliness happens and pulls the time and space in between.
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I find it interesting that the context of the internet is what has created and shaped our relationship. There is this paradox of you being a stranger yet at the same time a close friend, that is. something more than just a collaborator. The rhythm of how we work and move together is also interesting within the notion of ‘feeling present’– I know that you are there even when you are not. (Lisa)
Aside from what drives both artists to keep interacting together, while other ideas come in to the conversations, there’s a constant movement of the bodies in relation to each other. A remote entanglement between two particles in the same stream of consciousness where the intersection of juxtapositioning flow of the natural organic coding between two human entities occurs. Out of the repetition, the meaning and significance changes every time. And in the development of an enduring system of mediated communication, the possibility of performativity of a process that loops into a continuous transformation.
it’s about the impossibility of dealing with the untranslatable and its affections… (Daniel)
The different setups that materialize, also, this project to audiences and other participants (see Performeando and Online Cooking) are fragments of an established set of guidelines that are resultant from a specific environment shaping this connection.
Ultimately, opening up the rehearsals towards an unknown, unnamed, or undefined object that contains the essence of what the connection is made of is always in relation to how two bodies place themselves in front of each other and striving to feel one another.
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[full] video documentation of “Mediated Motion / LAND PROJECT” (raw edit)
Lisa Parra and Daniel Pinheiro
Performance showing on April 26, 2019
Invited to perform at Festival DDD (Dias da Dança), dance festival in Portugal on April 26 2019, thanks to the invitation of Flávio Rodrigues (artist and curator of DDD OUT*), LAND PROJECT continued to be developed, between February and April in different encounters exploring the concept and notion of “mediated motion” as a form to investigate possibilities of common action at a distance. The encounter aimed, through its development, at exploring possibilities of uniting the remote spaces/locations – Casa da Arquitectura (Matosinhos, Portugal) and LaMaMa Rehearsal Studios (New York, US) – and connecting the outdoors/public space ( @daniel-pinheiro) with the indoors/intimate space ( @lisaparra ) {an idea to be developed further into the future}.
While exploring the concept of (re)-mediation, the setup where the performance took place in Portugal and where audience was expected to be present was structured so that the spectator could choose from which perspective to watch the live interaction and some artifacts, such as materials tested for video projection purposes and a playlist of the previous encounters/rehearsals leading to this presentation.
*DDD OUT is a section of the festival, coordinated by Balleteatro which curates dance works to be performed in the public space.
Read more about the process here.
Visual documentation here.
“what does it mean being human in the future?” “how to be seen?” “the in between as a potential for connection…” the constant transformation caused by a state of permanent transition was present in Eli Steffen’s questions for his curation of Gray Spaces @ the Wild Project, as part of the Contemporary Performance Network Festival, Special Effects.
While addressing some of these questions in our work, this version of LAND PROJECT / Placelessness (first developed in residence in October, 2015) took on the following premise: negotiating movement within the in-betweeness of the digital space, as a response to one of the themes of Gray Spaces - the uncharted topographies of performance.
Where are you when you’re not here?! Where is here…?
Land Project, performed by Lisa Parra and Daniel Pinheiro, gave us some video-mirroring between Lisa in the lobby and Daniel on a live feed from an undisclosed location, presumably backstage. Physical movement was benign, but there was an eerie ISIS quality to Daniel’s placeless dark room. The physical became vocal as characters spoke in different languages, struggling to communicate and comprehend. “Are you here now? Where is here?”
