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PERFORMANCE
Stephan Silver presents...
...an interactive digital-dance art installation
venue: former Aldwych tube station entry hall, the Strand, London WC2
closest transport: Holborn, Temple and Charing Cross Stations
14-20 Oct daily from 12-8pm
featuring Sonic Artists Catherine Bassett and Martin Robinson
(Extractor)
FREE ADMISSION
For further information:
07876 452 190
info@stephansilver.com
www.stephansilver.com/detour
This presentation aims to create a symbiosis between the real and digital
worlds, a discourse between the body and place, architecture and movement.
Stephan Silver, digital artist, choreographer and architect, will be teaming
up once again with sonic artists Catherine Bassett and Martin Robinson
(Extractor) alongside five performers to create a walk-through sensory
environment that comes to life as members of the public "viewers" move
through a dynamic interplay of evolving spaces created through projected,
animated imagery and soundscape.
A goal of this work is to alter the "viewer's" perception, understanding of
space, time through perspective and increasing their awareness to their
surroundings by manipulating factors such as light, colour and sound.
By stripping elements down to their most basic structure and altering the
physical environment the "viewer" gains an added awareness of their known
reality (social, cultural and experiential).
Sensors are activated through movement and this activates and alters both
animated visuals and sound. In the spaces if the "viewer" does not move,
little happens. This encourages the "viewers" to take a participatory role,
and enables them to use the primordial tool that is inherent in all of us:
the body.
The performers provide a dialogue and add an extra layer of relational
responses between rehearsed figures and "viewers".
Bio:
Stephan Silver has been presenting choreographic works since 1992. These
performances have been a combination of solo and group pieces. Stephan's
work is driven by the pre-occupation with the study of movement in
three-dimensional space.
Stephan has performed his works at various dance venues, galleries and
outdoor public spaces including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival; The Place
Theatre, Chisenhale Dance Space in London; L'Agora de la danse, Theatre de
la Chapelle, Studio 303 in Montreal, Quebec; and P.S.122 in New York City.
Stephan's recent work has been in the development of technology in the realm
of dance, employing sensory devices within performance/art installations.
Presentations have taken place at events such as the International Dance and
Technology Conference (IDAT 99), Tempe, Arizona; Shifts 00, London;
Scotland's Dance and Technology 2000; Central Saint Martins College of Art &
Design, London; and as part of Movement Research at the Judson Church's
platform in New York City.
Project funded by London Arts; rehearsal space subsidised by the Jerwood
Space
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