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| ABOUT THEE PERFORMANCES |
BOXIGANGA
PERFORMANCE TEATER
TELEMATIC PERFORMANCE LAB
- stage art laboratories
February 11 - 27, 2005 |
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In the crossfire of art and academics Boxianga
explores the meeting of stage art and telematic technology.
Telematic Performance Lab is an examination of human perception
and interpersonal relations as they develop in telematic
constructions. Utilizing telematic systems, the team creates
5 scenic spaces as reflexive installations based in the
exploratory traditions of stage art. Within these scenic
spaces new models of understanding and perception arise.
In these five scenic installations filling Kanonhallen's
theater, participants are exposed to the staging of themselves
and their surroundings. They become the main characters
in the performance of their own experiences. With this
situationalisation of the participants as the constructors
of their own experience questions arise such as: What
are we when we perform theatrically for each other? How
do we examine and experience our relation to one another?
The installations include cameras, projectors and computers.
The camera films people, and its projections create a
background as well as a other worlds in the labyrinth
of scenography. Patterns of real-time-flow arise when
visual perception is transmitted from camera to computer
and on to video projection as movement of realities with
jumps in time, place and points of view.
The performance stage and the scenic installations reflect
that the world today is composed of a complex blend of
media. The installations allow the participants to rediscover
the senses point of origin - the body and the meeting
between people and their perception of, and experiences
with, one another. The audience does not simply view a
performance, but rather are involved in the narrative
of the stage, thereby finding themselves in the double
role of viewer and performer in the stage construction.
Examining the role of the creative audience, the installations
in Telematic Performance Lab can be seen as reverse scenography
- a scenography that makes the audience the main character
that actively organizes their own experience of the performance
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