Absolutelessness

2008 - Collaboration with Catherine Cabben & Elizabeth Buschmann

Performance for six dancers, two channel audio, four channel video projection, steel, polyethylene

Four “pixellation screens”, each 1 x 6 x 8 feet

This performance was part of Dancing in the Digital Domain, a collaboration between the University of Washington’s DXARTS and Dance Departments.  The audio/visual environment was based on the mediation of human form and presence by systematic (digital) imaging and communication.  As dancers move between projected light sources and an array of sculptural pixellation screens, their bodies and motions are reduced to rigid geometric forms, absolute values.  In an effort to transcend this cyber-abstraction, individual characters struggle to communicate beyond the confines of their framed environment through an evolution of gesture sound, and language


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