[foam][illumine-events] excercise 01

Aug. 28, 2003

Type: discussion

illumine: ebb and flow of stubborn matter

A public experiment exploring the convergences of (anti)-gravity
performance, movement and media.

'The first corporeal form which some call corporeity is in my opinion
light.'
Robert Grosseteste, 'On light or the beginning of forms'

This informal gathering is organised as a closure of the artist-residency of
two aerialists/anti-gravity artists Isabel Rocamora and Camila Valenzuela at
FoAM, within the 'illumine' programme. The two artists in residence are
joined by Stevie Wishart and several FoAM collaborators in a jam-session
with matter and media.

The experiment is conceived as an open studio, where the audience is invited
to meet the artists, exchange ideas and experiences, spawn new
collaborations or simply slow down, transported into a dense, charged,
luminescent sphere.

Throughout the evening the public can witness small experiments in which the
boundaries of choreography are nibbled on by media systems, suspended bodies
move through costumes designed as minuscule wearable spaces, live improvised
sounds converse with computer generated media in a 'camera obscura', where
gravity seems reversible and the architecture turns into illuminated
walkways.

Anti-Gravity Artists: Isabel Rocamora and Camila Valenzuela
(http://www.infinito.org.uk)
Live Sound Improvisation: Stevie Wishart
Media Designers: FoAM/ Nik Gaffney, Maja Kuzmanovic
Costume Designers: FoAM / Cocky Eek, Lina Kusaite

Location: FoAM lab Koopliedenstraat/Rue des Commercants 60-62, 1000 Brussels
Date: Tuesday, 02nd September, from 19.30
free entrance
contact: [email protected]

'Illumine. Excercises in Colloquial Luminescence': http://fo.am/illumine/

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Artists in residence biographies:

Isabel Rocamora is an anti-gravity artist based in London. Her background is
in theatre, dance, physical performance, aerial skills and film (training:
Jacques Lecoq, Masaki Iwana, CNDD (Netherlands), Circus Space and Bristol
University). In 93 she co-formed Momentary Fusion Aerial Dance Theatre with
the aim to explore the body