[NetBehaviour] Ukiyo [Moveable World] (London June 1)
Olga
olga.panades at gmail.com
Fri May 29 13:16:48 CEST 2009
Ukiyo [Moveable World]
A choreographic installation fusing dance, sound, design and digital
projections by dap-lab / dans sans joux.
June 1, 2009; 7:00 pm
Antonin Artaud Building,
Brunel University,
West London (UK).
Entry: free
http://people.brunel.ac.uk/dap/uikyo.html
http://www.dansansjoux.org
Event details: http://www.dance-tech.net/group/eukiyo/forum/topics/ukiyo-premiere-on-june-1
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Conceived and directed by Johannes Birringer, the installation
features fashion design concepts by Michèle Danjoux with choreography
by Katsura Isobe, Helenna Ren, Yiorgos Bakalos, Anne-Laure Misme,
Rumiko Bessho, Mamen Rivera and Olu Taiwo; photography and digital
designs by a group of collaborating artists including Paul Verity
Smith, Takeshi Kabata, and Yukihito Obara; original music with
real-time synthesis composed by Oded Ben-Tal, and live music by
Caroline Wilkins and Kerry Yong, scenography by Johannes Birringer,
and lighting design by Mamen Rivera.
UKIYO explores the layers of perceptions in an audiovisual world that
constantly shifts and fragments; the audience is invited to move in
and aound the space which in its current version features five
hanamichi (runways) and several movie screens. Dancers perform
simultaneously with digital objects that are projected, and their
sounds and voices are sampled and processed. The music and visual
choreography for "Ukiyo" are designed for real-time gestural
interaction to animate the feedback system and generative algorithms
through with the Second Life virtual space and the performer movements
are intertwined.
Loosely based on several haikus and Christian Kracht's utopian novel
on the SwissAfrican Soviet Revolution of the early 1900s (Ich werde
hier sein im Sonnenschein und im Schatten), and developed in online
rehearsals with Japanese dancers and engineers creating a possible
future "world" simulation of the cavernous Swiss sanctuary system in
the inner Alps (“Réduit"), UKIYO challenges our fantasies and
conceptions of past and future virtual worlds.
UKIYO is performed by an international cast of several performers
whose work developed in online collaboration with digital artists in
Tokyo, as part of a cross-cultural research venture in virtual
environments directed by Birringer (Professor of Performance
Technologies, DAP-Lab, Brunel School of Arts).
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Olga
http://www.ungravitational.net
http://virtualfirefly.wordpress.com
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