P(AR)ticipate: body of experience | body of work | body as archive (2014)
World Premiere Lake Studios Berlin 30 Aug 2014
Concept, Performance and interaction design by Jeannette Ginslov
Created during a six week dance-tech AIR Residency at Lake Studios Berlin.
P(AR)ticipate: body of experience/body of work/body as archive is an immersive, participatory and live performance installation using AR (Augmented Reality) to access Ginslov's personal and somatic memories of living in Apartheid & Democratic South Africa. P(AR)ticipate uses the AR app, Aurasma, on smart mobile devices, to access haptic and archival videos tagged to images on the walls, the floor and on Ginslov's moving body. The interaction is designed to trigger, perform and archive somatic memory across bodies and networked devices and may trigger the viewer's somatic memories.
Since 2010, Ginslov in collaboration with Susan Kozel, has explored affect and a-fixity in the interdisciplinary Screendance & AR project AffeXity. AffeXity researches the use of AR to capture and share affect using screendance shot in cityscapes. P(AR)ticipate extends this research and explores the notion that the body is a site of somatic memory, archiving and a site of non linear story telling. Somatic archiving, retrieval and the sharing of memories co-mingle with the social and cultural and create "messy exchanges between dynamic bodies, technological objects and mobile networks." (Kozel 2013). These encounters become platforms "for the transmission of affect (and somatic memories) across bodies that themselves exist across layers of mediatization". (ibid).
This may shape choreographic formations that have not yet been explored and “is a specialised and evolving form - where the choreographic language is interrogated not for form or content sake, but in response to the changing stimuli and physical liberties of the technology itself." (Laura Kriefman from Guerilla Dance Project 2014) The role of dancer, choreographer, story teller and viewer become inter-changeable and mutable. These experiential encounters consequentially liberate the choreographic language from more traditional vocabularies, narratives and settings.
Concept, Performance and interaction design by Jeannette Ginslov
Created during a six week dance-tech AIR Residency at Lake Studios Berlin.
P(AR)ticipate: body of experience/body of work/body as archive is an immersive, participatory and live performance installation using AR (Augmented Reality) to access Ginslov's personal and somatic memories of living in Apartheid & Democratic South Africa. P(AR)ticipate uses the AR app, Aurasma, on smart mobile devices, to access haptic and archival videos tagged to images on the walls, the floor and on Ginslov's moving body. The interaction is designed to trigger, perform and archive somatic memory across bodies and networked devices and may trigger the viewer's somatic memories.
Since 2010, Ginslov in collaboration with Susan Kozel, has explored affect and a-fixity in the interdisciplinary Screendance & AR project AffeXity. AffeXity researches the use of AR to capture and share affect using screendance shot in cityscapes. P(AR)ticipate extends this research and explores the notion that the body is a site of somatic memory, archiving and a site of non linear story telling. Somatic archiving, retrieval and the sharing of memories co-mingle with the social and cultural and create "messy exchanges between dynamic bodies, technological objects and mobile networks." (Kozel 2013). These encounters become platforms "for the transmission of affect (and somatic memories) across bodies that themselves exist across layers of mediatization". (ibid).
This may shape choreographic formations that have not yet been explored and “is a specialised and evolving form - where the choreographic language is interrogated not for form or content sake, but in response to the changing stimuli and physical liberties of the technology itself." (Laura Kriefman from Guerilla Dance Project 2014) The role of dancer, choreographer, story teller and viewer become inter-changeable and mutable. These experiential encounters consequentially liberate the choreographic language from more traditional vocabularies, narratives and settings.
Documentary video: Marlon Barrios Solano dance-tech.net
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Videos are triggered by the audience holding their device over the tagged images:
Link 10 Haptic Videos triggered by Ginslov's personal somatic hieroglyphs (Borrowed from Nancy Stark Smith's Underscores)
Camera & edit: Jeannette Ginslov, 2nd Camera: Marcela Gietsche. Location: Lake Studios Berlin
Link 10 Archive Videos triggered by images of Ginslov's live dance and screendance works
Camera: Jeannette Ginslov, Donald Tolmie & Vilte Vaitkute
Edit: Jeannette Ginslov, Location: South Africa & Dundee Scotland
Link 10 Haptic Videos triggered by Ginslov's personal somatic hieroglyphs (Borrowed from Nancy Stark Smith's Underscores)
Camera & edit: Jeannette Ginslov, 2nd Camera: Marcela Gietsche. Location: Lake Studios Berlin
Link 10 Archive Videos triggered by images of Ginslov's live dance and screendance works
Camera: Jeannette Ginslov, Donald Tolmie & Vilte Vaitkute
Edit: Jeannette Ginslov, Location: South Africa & Dundee Scotland
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Performances
SUMMER MEDIA STUDIO 2016 Lithuania
23 June P(AR)ticipate: body of experience/body of work/body as archive. Talk: Openness, porosity and audience reception of personal somatic and haptic memory found in P(AR)ticipate with presentation. For Screendance and AR (Augmented Reality) Residency at Nida Art Colony, Neringa Lithuania. SMS 2016 was produced by the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre - International European film student workshop. Screendance, 3D Film and AR workshop. 20 June-02 July
http://summermediastudio.lt/2016/
23 June P(AR)ticipate: body of experience/body of work/body as archive. Talk: Openness, porosity and audience reception of personal somatic and haptic memory found in P(AR)ticipate with presentation. For Screendance and AR (Augmented Reality) Residency at Nida Art Colony, Neringa Lithuania. SMS 2016 was produced by the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre - International European film student workshop. Screendance, 3D Film and AR workshop. 20 June-02 July
http://summermediastudio.lt/2016/
Federal University of Bahia Salvador, Brazil
Presentation and talk: P(AR)ticipate: body of experience/body of work/body as archive.
02 June 2016 "Openness, porosity and audience reception of personal somatic and haptic memory found in P(AR)ticipate: body of experience/body of work/body as archive"
Presentation and talk: P(AR)ticipate: body of experience/body of work/body as archive.
02 June 2016 "Openness, porosity and audience reception of personal somatic and haptic memory found in P(AR)ticipate: body of experience/body of work/body as archive"
Dança em Foco International Festival of Vídeo and Dance - Rio de Janeiro
Centro Cultural Municipal Castelinho do Flamengo. Talk: 28 May 2016 Openness, porosity and audience reception of personal somatic and haptic memory found in P(AR)ticipate: body of experience/body of work/body as archive.
28 May 7-8pm with showing of P(AR)ticipate. Workshop & Retrospective May 24-27
http://dancaemfoco.com.br/index.php/en/
Centro Cultural Municipal Castelinho do Flamengo. Talk: 28 May 2016 Openness, porosity and audience reception of personal somatic and haptic memory found in P(AR)ticipate: body of experience/body of work/body as archive.
28 May 7-8pm with showing of P(AR)ticipate. Workshop & Retrospective May 24-27
http://dancaemfoco.com.br/index.php/en/
The D Word at the CCA (The Centre for Contemporary Arts) Glasgow, Scotland
Fri 18 September 2015. In conjunction with her Masters Degree Show at The Glasgow School of Art, first time filmmaker Alexandra Hall joins together with established filmmakers Janice Parker, Simon Fildes, Daniel Warren and Jeannette Ginslov to present The D Word, at CCA (The Centre for Contemporary Arts), a screening of highly imaginative and diverse dance films. The screening and following panel discussion will explore the filmmakers' varying creative processes and how they use dance in their professional practice. http://www.cca-glasgow.com/programme/55f061a0eb33140072000001
Full Video of talk
Fri 18 September 2015. In conjunction with her Masters Degree Show at The Glasgow School of Art, first time filmmaker Alexandra Hall joins together with established filmmakers Janice Parker, Simon Fildes, Daniel Warren and Jeannette Ginslov to present The D Word, at CCA (The Centre for Contemporary Arts), a screening of highly imaginative and diverse dance films. The screening and following panel discussion will explore the filmmakers' varying creative processes and how they use dance in their professional practice. http://www.cca-glasgow.com/programme/55f061a0eb33140072000001
Full Video of talk
Dance Base Edinburgh Scotland
14 Feb 2015 for the Senses Showcase
14 Feb 2015 for the Senses Showcase
Hannah Maclure Centre Dundee Scotland
02 April 2015 Live performance with Screendance and AR Workshop: 18-21:00
16 March - 10 April 2015 As part of the decoding space exhibition
Performance and technology have been defining and re-defining their relationship for the last 25 years. Artists, performers and technologists have experimented with hardware, software, movement, virtual and physical space, revealing what many regard as a fairly new field of artistic practice, Digital Performance. Decoding Space samples a selection of ground-breaking, experimental and playful projects to encourage exploration of the current research and practice within the field of performance and technology. From pervasive gaming, augmented reality, narrative and abstract animation, ubiquitous computing and computer human interaction, Decoding Space peers into the vast landscape of Digital Performance. Featuring Blast Theory, Quartic Llama, PlayDead, Jeannette Ginslov Lynn Parker and Corinne Jola. See Website
02 April 2015 Live performance with Screendance and AR Workshop: 18-21:00
16 March - 10 April 2015 As part of the decoding space exhibition
Performance and technology have been defining and re-defining their relationship for the last 25 years. Artists, performers and technologists have experimented with hardware, software, movement, virtual and physical space, revealing what many regard as a fairly new field of artistic practice, Digital Performance. Decoding Space samples a selection of ground-breaking, experimental and playful projects to encourage exploration of the current research and practice within the field of performance and technology. From pervasive gaming, augmented reality, narrative and abstract animation, ubiquitous computing and computer human interaction, Decoding Space peers into the vast landscape of Digital Performance. Featuring Blast Theory, Quartic Llama, PlayDead, Jeannette Ginslov Lynn Parker and Corinne Jola. See Website
Audience feedback
Tom deMajo Director Creator of the AR project Other by Quartic Llama "I really like your approach to using AR. You avoid the pitfall of technological novelty, and the multi layered approach to your work hijacks AR tech and takes it into meaningful space."
Corinne Jola Lecturer Psychology Abertay University. "I think the multiple layers in your work are strong – that it is an archive of text, images, and video."
Pernille Spence Lecturer DJCAD University of Dundee & Performance Artist in Dundee. "You avoid technological novelty but have developed a beautifully creative way for people to interact with technology, story and physical experience."
Tom deMajo Director Creator of the AR project Other by Quartic Llama "I really like your approach to using AR. You avoid the pitfall of technological novelty, and the multi layered approach to your work hijacks AR tech and takes it into meaningful space."
Corinne Jola Lecturer Psychology Abertay University. "I think the multiple layers in your work are strong – that it is an archive of text, images, and video."
Pernille Spence Lecturer DJCAD University of Dundee & Performance Artist in Dundee. "You avoid technological novelty but have developed a beautifully creative way for people to interact with technology, story and physical experience."