CONSPIRACY ARCHIVES (2017-2020)
Conspiracy Archives is an example of research that has philosophical, technological and performative qualities. It is artistic research from the Living Archives Research Project at Malmö University. It is a collaboration with Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir, Jeannette Ginslov, Keith Lim and Daniel Spikol.
Using Mixed Reality, an archive is created of the studio processes of choreographer Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir in creating her 2017 performance Conspiracy Ceremony: HYPERSONIC STATES (http://msgudjonsdottir.com.) This intense and powerful choreography was made from many hours in the studio working with reflective somatic (bodily) practices. The deep and meditative quality of the work makes it a fascinating archiving challenge: how is it possible to archive the dynamic, moving meditation of the dancers?
The installation is an outcome of a research into creating a Mixed Reality Choreographic Archive prototype. The large images you see installed in this space act as triggers to launch video in an App running on mobile devices (phones, iPads etc.) The visual and sonic material is created to archive and share the somatic practices and states created within the studio processes of choreographer Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir during the making of her performance Conspiracy Ceremony-HYPERSONIC STATES in 2017. Using artistic strategies with digital materials the affective qualities of the work are re-performed and shared. This is an example of research that has philosophical, technological and performative qualities, and an attempt to use digital devices as an active political gesture, to transport something of human value and experience beyond the domain of the commercial world and markets.
Dancers: Johanna Chemnitz, Catherine Jodoin, Laura Sigemund, Marie Topp, Suet-Wan Tsang.
Composer: Peter Reyberg.
Photographer and videographer: Jeannette Ginslov
PLAYLIST of videos from 2020 Close Encounters
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-byKtwPMjA7tryh7Sd3oAv5nOgxft6RS
Using Mixed Reality, an archive is created of the studio processes of choreographer Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir in creating her 2017 performance Conspiracy Ceremony: HYPERSONIC STATES (http://msgudjonsdottir.com.) This intense and powerful choreography was made from many hours in the studio working with reflective somatic (bodily) practices. The deep and meditative quality of the work makes it a fascinating archiving challenge: how is it possible to archive the dynamic, moving meditation of the dancers?
The installation is an outcome of a research into creating a Mixed Reality Choreographic Archive prototype. The large images you see installed in this space act as triggers to launch video in an App running on mobile devices (phones, iPads etc.) The visual and sonic material is created to archive and share the somatic practices and states created within the studio processes of choreographer Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir during the making of her performance Conspiracy Ceremony-HYPERSONIC STATES in 2017. Using artistic strategies with digital materials the affective qualities of the work are re-performed and shared. This is an example of research that has philosophical, technological and performative qualities, and an attempt to use digital devices as an active political gesture, to transport something of human value and experience beyond the domain of the commercial world and markets.
Dancers: Johanna Chemnitz, Catherine Jodoin, Laura Sigemund, Marie Topp, Suet-Wan Tsang.
Composer: Peter Reyberg.
Photographer and videographer: Jeannette Ginslov
PLAYLIST of videos from 2020 Close Encounters
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-byKtwPMjA7tryh7Sd3oAv5nOgxft6RS