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INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION PARADISO senses+spaces at JULIDANS FESTIVAL AMSTERDAM

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on July 1, 2013 at 7:09pm

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INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION PARADISO senses+spaces

at JULIDANS FESTIVAL AMSTERDAM

7th-8th July from 18h00 until 20h00

at Theater Bellevue

The interactive Installation PARADISO senses+spaces will be presented at the international Dance festival Julidans.

PARADISO is a series of two interactive dance films. Its two levels, "senses" and "spaces," address sensory awareness and kinesthetic learning. Dancer and choreographer Bertha Bermudez (Amsterdam), her filmmaker Maite Bermudez (Barcelona) and media artist and director Chris  Ziegler expand cinematic experience into physicality and deliver an artistic review on the present hype surrounding 3D cinema. The film was shot in the eternal ice of the Arctic and Antarctic, in the deserts of Africa and in other inhospitable parts of the world.

 

In the first level of PARADISO - "senses" - the viewer is "touched" by the dancer’s movement. Force feedback sensors with electroactive polymers and a custom-built 4D chair give tactile feedback on the skin of the viewer. Image, sound, wind and evaporated perfumes activate almost all the senses: sight, hearing, touch and smell.

 

PARADISO’s second level - "spaces" - connects the viewer’s kinesphere to  the camera of the film. Watching the dancer’s movements in the film leads the viewer into the movement of the camera’s viewing angle. In an expansion of Vertov's mental montage in early 20th century filmmaking, the viewer of PARADISO generates an interactive physical montage.

PARADISO is the last phase of the film project film trilogy IMAGINED DANTE by Las Negras Productions, Imagined Hell, Imagined Purgatory and Imagined Paradiso.  This project is inspired by choreographers Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten and their Dante's trilogy, Inferno, Purgatorio and you Para | Diso.

With support from The Amsterdam International Choreographic Arts Center ICK/Emio Greco | PC (NL) and Flying Elephant Foundation - Gregory Colbert (USA/FR), city council of Munich, Muffathalle Munich and Center for Art and Media ZKM Karlsruhe.

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Move: Choreographing You at Hayward Gallery, London

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on October 19, 2010 at 10:10pm


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Move: Choreographing You
13 October 2010 – 9 January 2011

Hayward Gallery
Southbank Centre
Belvedere Road
London SE1 8XX

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This autumn the Hayward Gallery presents seminal works and new commissions by leading artists in Move: Choreographing You. Exploring the historical and current relationship between visual arts, dance and performance, the exhibition focuses on visual artists and choreographers from the last 50 years who create sculptures and installations that turn the audience into active participants, becoming more aware of their body – or even becoming a dancer. The exhibition is accompanied by a series of performances at Southbank Centre by acclaimed choreographers including Trisha Brown and Rosemary Butcher, La Ribot and Xavier Le Roy. The exhibition has been designed by Amanda Levete Architects.

Artists featured include: Nevin Aladağ, Janine Antoni, Pablo Bronstein, Trisha Brown, Tania Bruguera, Boris Charmatz, Lygia Clark, Siobhan Davies, EVERYBODYS/Générique, William Forsythe, Simone Forti, Dan Graham, Christian Jankowski, Isaac Julien, Mike Kelley, Michael Kliën, Anita Pace, La Ribot, Xavier Le Roy & Mårten Spångberg, The OpenEnded Group and Wayne McGregor, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, João Penalva, Yvonne Rainer, Franz Erhard Walther and Franz West.

The exhibition takes as its starting point the Judson Church Theater and Allan Kaprow's Happenings in 1960s New York, which blurred the boundaries between art and life. Curated by Stephanie Rosenthal, Chief Curator, Hayward Gallery, the exhibition explores how everyday movements have been a driving force in the development of both contemporary art and dance since the 1960s. It examines how visual artists in the 1960s and 1970s used choreography as a means to encourage audiences to experience art with their whole body, whilst increasingly over the last two decades artists have used dance and performance to explore how everyday behaviour is choreographed and manipulated.

At points throughout the exhibition visitors can pause to explore a touch-screen digital archive designed by Unit9 and co-curated by André Lepecki, Professor of Performance Studies at New York University, which brings together photographs and films of 120 of some of the most important performance works from the last 50 years.

Stephanie Rosenthal, Curator of Move: Choreographing You, says: "I believe that this will be a totally new approach to experiencing the crucial and inspiring relationship between art and dance. I hope that the exhibition will give people a new awareness of their own bodies in space and how they can interact with the environment around them."

Alongside the exhibition, a there is a programme of high-profile performances, co-curated by the dance programming team at Southbank Centre in collaboration with Stephanie Rosenthal. British choreographer Rosemary Butcher reinterprets Allan Kaprow's 18 Happenings in 6 parts and there are UK premieres of Schrottplatz by Thomas Lehmen (9 Nov), Llamame Mariachi by La Ribot (26 Nov) and Anne Collod's reinterpretation of Anna Halprin's Parades & Changes, Replays (27 Nov) and a new work by Xavier Le Roy (28 Nov). All these performances are programmed to coincide with a three-day symposium at Southbank Centre (26-28 Nov).

The exhibition is supported by German Federal Cultural Foundation, the Henry Moore Foundation and Louis Vuitton. It tours to Haus der Kunst, Munich, from 4 February to 15 May 2011 and will be adapted for presentation at K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf from 16 July to 25 September 2011.

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*Image above:
Photo by Fredrik Nilsen.
Courtesy Kelley Studio.
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