Yet
there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin
process video of R&D phase 1 of at IDlab Studio - De Machinekamer 2019-2020
Yet
there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is
unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that
the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday
and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now. (Virginia Woolf: The Waves)
This project is a
research towards letting this sentence become a relational composition
of video, sound, dance, objects, plateaus and computing, linked through a
system of sensors. Through these sensors and
the dancers, the audience is woven into the fabric of the installation
and is co-composing the relational emergence of the work.
Open Studio presentation:
Friday, February
7, 2019, 7-8pm
Reza Mirabi and his team will present their current research
and project in development at IDlab. Location: IDlab Studio, Jodenbreestraat 3, Amsterdam - 5th floor
Over the last few
months, we have been working with this sentence from Virginia Woolf’s
The Waves or maybe it has been working with us or probably we have been
working with each other. There is such a strong
reverberance towards these moments in which the walls of the mind grow
thin, somewhere where the distinction between inside and outside is
becoming obscured and messy. The mind that extends into the relational,
the objects that become part of the cognitive,
the thought that moves through and with the world. The separation
between the mind, body and the environment is starting to elude. When
nothing is unabsorbed - an immersive modality but inverted where
everything matters and is moved. The bubble - as much abstract
as concrete - is inviting the imaginary outside of the outside; towards
a becoming disentangled from the normative and structures that are held
in place by the weight of the present.
Specs:
Sensors for Motion Tracking: 6 x X-Box Kinects
Sound: MAX MSP + Ableton 10
3d Spatialization: SPAT Revolution + 26 Speaker System
Visuals: Touchdesigner
Projection: 4 Beamers + 5 LED Screens
data processing: Open Framework libraries (C++)
Credits:
Concept + Choreography: Reza Mirabi
Visuals: Darien Brito + Jeisson Drenth
Sound: Elisa Battistutta
Developer: Aleksandar Koruga
Dance: Mina Tomic, Fernanda Libman, Johhan Rosenberg
IDlab: r&d partner
Special thanks to Willem Weemhoff, Frederick Rodrigues and Erik Lint.
This project is supported by the AFK (Amsterdam Fund for the Arts).