http://chunkymove.com.au
by Ana Sofía Sordo
Molina, Alma Delia Vega Valentín and Estefanía Elizabeth Ruíz Escobedo.
Founded in
1995 by Gideon Obarzanek, they began working like a collective with the purpose
to only make dance performances. Ever since they own a theatre (2002), which
the Australian government gave to them, they started experimenting with
multimedia and new technologies in some of their pieces. In 2011 their artistic
director Obarzanek resigned and since July 2012, Anouk Van Dijk, a famous
choreographer took his place.
There are two
pieces that evidence the relations between technology and humans, these are: Glow (2006) and Mortal Engine (2008). The relevance of these pieces is that they
were developed before video mapping[1]
became important and commercial, so they were a total innovation in the field
of art.
Glow and Mortal
Engine use a software created by Frieder Weiss who defines himself as an
" arts engineer"[2], when
Obarzanek and Weiss met at the Monaco
Dance Forum (2004) they began to discuss about using a data projector for
lighting a moving body. After testing the software they created Glow in which movement and video
landscapes mix and generate a total transformation in the dancers[3].
Mortal Engine was the next piece in which Obarzanek
and Weiss worked together. With more knowledge of the things the software can
do they decided to go further, not only using the video projector but also
using a laser at the time music and dancers perform. In Glow they were looking a human body transformation, in Mortal Engine for a new vision of the
limits of the human body reflecting in the utilization of lasers as an
extension of the dancer’s body.
Technology
has permitted man develop capacities that before seemed impossible, from
crossing the ocean up to flying. Technology has permitted not only human evolution,
but also his ways of thinking and seeing all that surrounds him. Technology offers
the possibility to experiment more with the body, making it feel freer as
always wanted.
[1] The video mapping takes more importance since
2005 and the fact is that these two pieces were the “beginners” in the utilization
of video projector in real time perform is happening.
[2] He developed his software while he
was living in Berlin and Nürnberg; the only function of this software is
working with artists in performance or installations[2].
Frieder
Weiss website: http://www.frieder-weiss.de/
20-03-13 (5:00pm).
[3] “With a better understanding of the system’s
capabilities, its possible applications and further potential, the dancers and
I have attempted in the movement to create a type of “biotech fiction”,
shifting the body into other imaginary sensual and grotesque creature states.
The relationship of the digital pixel environment to the performer varies from
being an illustrative extended motion of their movement, a visual expression of
internal states, and also a self-contained animated habitat”. Glow Obarzanek’s opinion.
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