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The
installation combines dance and interactivity on exploration how
personal history is constructed through corporeal memories and photographs.
Using photographs from their family albums as inspiration, dancers
Pia Lindy and Fatou Traoré created two interactive choreographies.
The
user connects up with the chosen dancer when jamming with her self-biographical
choreographies.
By stepping on the carpet wired with four sensors, the user can
control the dancers movements in the video screen. The choreography
changes in rhythm with the user’s footsteps. The focus of
the use is improvisation. Jamming with the projected characters
the user uncovers their staged stories. The control cuts both ways:
the user may think of the dancers as a marionettes, but the installation
forces also him to move; the stories do not unfold without the activity
of the user. |