Mixed Body

In this interactive dance project, an kiosk incorporating a video camera and a hand/finger position tracking algorithm lets audience members control the images projected on stage and direct the motions of the dancers in real time.

The fingerprint, the criminalizing identifier, becomes a gestural tool,
anonymously controlling and restricting the actions of others.

The performance is composed of three short (3-5 minute) parts which will cycle continuously from 4-6pm.

Conwell Dance Theater @ Temple University
North Broad Street & Montgomery Avenue
Friday, September 18th 2009
4-6PM

FREE ADMISSION


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FOUR PERFORMANCE CYCLES AT: 4:00, 4:30, 5:00 & 5:30 PM

FREE ADMISSION

“Mixed-body” is an interactive video installation and improvisational dance performance that focuses on the body as a source of identity in both the physical and virtual realms. It looks at the experience of the “body as data” in the center of the narrative recounting how measurable and collectable aspects of corporeality are utilized to establish and legitimize a person’s identity.

In this project, the documentary trace, "fingerprint", is a cipher of social control [and] becomes a trace of the televisual body or hybrid live representation that actively engages relational processes with other bodies. The fingerprint, the criminalizing identifier, becomes a gestural tool, anonymously contributed from multiple input points to a performance space as dynamic scenery for dancers. Anonymous live participants generate through physical/digital traces in a reversal of their documentation. A social/performance event is created by these documented and undocumented bodies.

~Sarah Drury, 2009
http://www.subtle.net/empyre/