December 02, 2004
turned
re-turning performance system
turned is an interactive and multi-medial dance performance. Jointly developed and performed by the media artist working at the ZKM in Karlsruhe, Chris Ziegler, and Kazue Ikeda, a Japanese dancer currently working in Berlin. The performance combines elements from dance, painting, visual art and music. The recorded images of the dancing body are sampled and distorted by electronic processing. The motion deconstructed in this manner opens up a poetic vision of losses and destruction. The beholder is taken along on a quest for clues. The piece turned is a turntable: it begins as a concert, continues as a dance, then goes over into an interactive video sequence and finally flows into a 3D-installation. A multi-medial space body develops right before the eyes of the audience.
Synopsis: a) sound/kinetic objects--the concert starts with turntable sound loops. various materials (but no vinyl !) are used on the turntable to start a complex interaction of sound, visuals and movement; b) dance--the dance starts with video and sound fragments based the dancers body in motion. The dancer takes over control of video and sound; c) transformation--the dance is connected to video, video to virtual 3d shapes, and sound is influenced by movement. Fragments of a) and b) will return in c) - another turn.
Between 1993 and 1999 Ziegler developed tools for rehearsal. He was involved in the production of the digital dance school "bill forsythe: improvisation technologies" (ballett frankfurt), which was a cd-rom, published in 1999 by the cantz verlag and the zkm (center for art and media) karlsruhe. After this project Ziegler worked on the relation of sound, visuals and dance on stage in "scanned I-V" (1999-2001). The live dance was scanned and transformed into "traces." This creates a temporal and spatial picture of reference to dance for the viewer about that which has already occured within the performance. "returntable" will permanently develop moving images and sounds in conjunction with the live dance: a "virtual pas-de-trois" of the moving body, visuals and interacitve sounds. the close releationship of all elements on stage will create "returntable": a re-turning movement performance system.
Posted by jo at December 2, 2004 08:47 AM
