You are the audience, but you are also a performer. As you stand in Bournemouth Square every evening during Inside Out 2010, a thermal imaging camera high above picks up body heat - and turns your movement into patterns, shapes and colours, projected onto the square and onto a big screen.
This is Congregation, the European premiere of a new installation by KMA - in Bournemouth until September 19th 2010 - then at Tate Britain.
Inside Out takes place from 31st August to September 9th 2012 with ten days of outdoor performances, which will transform Dorset’s rural, urban and coastal settings into a series of magical worlds. This blog is all about the performances and the artists. It's intended as both documentation and a response to the work on show.
Saturday 11 September 2010
You are the audience - and one of the performers....
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Just a bit more information about Congregation from SCAN’s handout (in case you were wondering what it was all about!). More on this piece later!
ReplyDeleteSCAN and Bournemouth Borough Council have commissioned this new work for Inside Out Festival by KMA (www.KMA.co.uk), collaboration between UK media artists Kit Monkman and Tom Wexler. Their work is primarily focussed on illuminating, encouraging and developing interactions between people I public spaces using projected light. These engagements in social place generate diverse audiences free from social barriers. The participants take ownership of the work and the environment in which it is stage, creating a sense of even that in itself informs and illuminates the public space.
KMA’s most ambitious work to date, Congregation will be the world’s first ever ballet designed, choreographed and composed entirely by pedestrian performers. There will be no rehearsal and no textual input: participants will simply respond to the choreography of light and sound in an embodied, rather than verbal discourse. The piece previewed at Shanghai Expo and travels next to Tate Britain.
The original music is by Peter Broderick; performer (Bournemouth-based dance artist) Natasha Player.
A new interactive installation by KMA, Congregation for Bournemouth Square 10 – 25 September 2010. Part of Inside Out Festival and commissioned for Bournemouth in partnership with Bournemouth Borough Council. The piece will also be shown at Shanghai Expo and Tate Britain. Funded by Arts Council England, British Council and Bournemouth Borough Council.