2018
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ephemeral edgespace
Ephermeral Edgespace, Durban,South Africa, ISEA festival, 2018. Photo © 2018 Birringer
film and live dance with electronic music
Johannes Birringer (scenography)
Haein Song (dance and film)
Claudia Robles Angel (music)
Description
Ephemeral Edgespace
is an installation-performance that opens out to am immersive, ritualized,
intimate event, ensounding the participants and including audiovisual, tactile
and shamanic (mugu) interfaces that draw on particular concepts of multisensorial
choreographic architecture, interactional objects, and luminescence.
We understand such choreographic architectures as kinetic atmospheres (“kimospheres”)
which are not art installations in the traditional sense but participatory
scenarios, often built with fabrics and paper, which emphasize sensorial and
affective ritualized engagements between dancers, musicians and audience.
Ephemeral Edgespace is not a completed work but will be constructed to emerge
in the South African local context of ISEA2018, adapted to the particular
place we are potentially given to work in.
This kimosphere, the sixth in a series that began in 2015, will be created
in collaboration between theatre director Johannes Birringer, audiovisual
artist (including interfacing with biosignals) Claudia Robles-Angel, choreographer
and techno-shaman Haein Song (a specialist in Korean ritual kut), and invited
South African musicians/percussionists. It attempts to test transcultural
edges, inspired by Song’s recent curation of a ritual journey at a Healing
Arts festival on the volcanic Jeju Island, locating “ecstatic space”
as a bridge between projected (light, video, animation), natural-material
and spiritual worlds.
Ephermeral Edgespace, Durban,South Africa, ISEA festival, 2018. Photo © 2018 Birringer
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Matsutake 1
dance film
Matsutake 1, with dancer.choreographer Zhi Xu, Artaud Performance Center Photo © 2018 DAP-La b
Matsutake 1 is a dance film created in preparation for a new
kimosphere installation – Transparent Eclipse – to be
premiered at ISEA 2019 in Gwangju, Korea
scenography: Johannes Birringer
dance/choreography: Zhi Xu
sound synthesis: A-Kin (Drew Egan)
Arts&Artaud, Artaud Performance Center, London
Produced by DAP-Lab
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Whisper Room
Whisper Room (Matsutake 2), with dancer.choreographer Zhi Xu, Artaud Performance Center Photo © 2018 DAP-La b
Whisper Room is a dance film exploring wearable sensors - created
in preparation for a new
kimosphere installation – Transparent Eclipse – to be
premiered at ISEA 2019 in Gwangju, Korea
scenography: Johannes Birringer
dance/choreography: Zhi Xu
sound synthesis: A-Kin (Drew Egan)
Artaud Performance Center, London 2018
Produced by DAP-Lab
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Some Day
Some Day. film still, with dancer.choreographer Zhi Xu, Artaud Performance Center Photo © 2018 DAP-La b
Some Day is a dance film exploring sound and movement repetitions
and verbal stimuli (whisperings, ASMR)- created in preparation for a new
kimosphere installation – Transparent Eclipse – to be
premiered at ISEA 2019 in Gwangju, Korea
scenography: Johannes Birringer
dance/choreography: Zhi Xu
sound synthesis: A-Kin (Drew Egan)
Artaud Performance Center, London 2018
Produced by DAP-Lab
