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ItemPerforming Empathy Machines, In, Changing Perspectives on Performance: Interrogating Digital Dimensions and New Modes of Engagement( 2021-10-09)Performing Empathy Machines was presented as part of a panel - Mediated Bodies - for the Changing Perspectives on Live Performance online international symposium. The symposium explored transformations in theatre, dance and performance-making, and their professional practices, that emerged during the pandemic. An online performance by Jordine Cornish and Luigi Vescio of choreography for MENTAL DANCE developed by Carol Brown with live movement-sound mapping driven by an AI agent by Monica Lim, was followed by a chaired discussion as part of the panel that included Andew Duffield, Hazel Gomes and Melina Scialom.
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ItemVirtual Crossings Melbourne - Geneva -Auckland(TrakLAB, Victorian College of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts & Music, University of Melbourne & Cie Gilles Jobin, 2021)How do we build choreographic systems for dancing with those we cannot touch? In a world in which the medium of a mask and the interface of a screen are omnipresent, touching at a distance becomes a choreographic problem. Developing tools to navigate a touchless habitat engages actions of crossing thresholds - between physical and virtual, distant and near – from the perspective of cellular bodies hardwired for touch. Virtual Crossings is a network of artists engaged in cultivating distant touch through remote collaboration. Initiated by Cie Gille Jobin Geneva, this inter-disciplinary network engaged partners in Melbourne, Geneva and Auckland for simultaneous remote performance and research through a virtual architecture embodied through motion capture technology. Virtual Crossings mobilises soma-technic states as new spaces for dance to travel safely and with minimal impact.
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ItemThe Air Between Us(University of Otago, Dunedin, 2021-05-19)From the clear skies of Central Otago to the dense smog of Tehran, LungSong makes connections through our most intimate act, breathing. Using song, dance and live sampling to travel from one place to another, resisting ‘the forgetting of air’ (Irigaray 1999), breath activates shifts between dimensions. Recordings of the atmosphere’s compositional change become an immersive sonic texture, choreography takes place in the spaces between us: in-land and On Air. LungSong is a multi-sited performance event in development by the creative team Carol Brown (choreography), Russell Scoones (sound design) and Kasia Pol (performance design). Living in a world that is in a state of chaos and emergency, facing climate catastrophes and humanitarian crises, this performance research project acknowledges that as artists we do not exist in a vacuum, apart from these realities but are confronted with them daily. Our living relations through inter-disciplinary practices, anticipate a future that cannot be known in advance, but upon whose unfolding, our kinesthetic and sonic tuning towards response-ability depends. LungSong is a performance experiment towards an ethics of breathing. Transcultural, transcontextual and inter-species, it locates air as matter, inspired and exhaled in a world that is shared. Drawing on research into the exchanges of breaths between New Zealand Māori, Iranian and Argentinian dancers and musicians in Aotearoa New Zealand, informed by feminist, queer and indigenous philosophies and cut with samples from atmospheric research science taking place in NIWA @ Lauder, this performative presentation aims to open a dialogue on that most taken for granted element of performance practice, the air between us.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableWAHAWAEWAO [We Are Here And We Are EveryWhere At Once] VR(Ars Electronica Festival 2020, 2020)WAHAWAEWAO is a Moving Image Installation developed as a VR Mozilla Hub Exhibition for the Ars Electronica Festival 2020 In Kepler's Gardens. Movement and landscape in flux, five figures wander across the landscape of Central Otago. Between the rocks and crevices, they move. The work explores our persistent longing for belonging in an age of virtual travel. Filmed in the raw physical landscapes of Central Otago and the Motion Capture Studio of CoLab AUT in Auckland, it maps between radically different scapes. The consolations of landscape dissolve as fractures and junctures open between the memory and affect of these different atmospheres, altering the performers transit. In this new cartography, that is here and everywhere; their bodies take on the rhythms of an altered place. Tracked in all dimensions, they become trackers, navigating travel to unknown and ungraspable places.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableLungSong Screen Dance(Wanaka Festival of Colour, 2019)From breaching breaths to wild dialects with the clouds, LungSong brings attention and feeling to the scientific labor of climate change research through an activation of relations between bodies, airs, atmospheres and cosmologies. Catalysed by a residency at the Lauder Atmospheric Research Station (NIWA) and meetings with scientists and technicians who are involved in ‘ground truth’ readings and data collection of the changes taking place in our atmosphere due to global warming, LungSong is an eco-feminist response to the temper(ature) of our times. LungSong is an ongoing event of reckoning with the state we are in - responsive and resistive, eruptive and sensing - it is shaped by the living experience of planetary and human breaths and the writings of Luce Irigaray.
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ItemLip(s)(Silo 6, 2019)Lip(s) was a multi-sensory exhibition presenting different perspectives on the body, circularity and femininity while exploring the intersections between diverse disciplines: sculpture, sound, installation, dance, painting, poetry and film.
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ItemLungSong(Ecowest Festival, 2019)LungSong is a 60 minute performance that calls attention to life at all scales. A performance cosmology and a call to action, this performance generates affinities between scientific research on climate change and artistic innovation. In contemplating an apocalypse of the skies, from one of the places in the world with the cleanest air, LungSong, became a meeting place for artists and scientists to engage in research that resisted the ‘forgetting of air’ (Irigaray 1999). See https://vimeo.com/335979067
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ItemLiving Archive of Breath(Festival of Colour, Wanaka, 2019)Can the arts inspire climate action? Living Archive of Breath brings attention and feeling to the scientific labor of climate change research through an activation of relations between breath, air and atmosphere. Catalysed by a residency at the Lauder Atmospheric Research Station (NIWA) and meetings with scientists and technicians who are involved in ‘ground truth’ readings and data collection of the changes taking place in our atmosphere due to global warming, Living Archive of Breath emerged as an artists’ testimony and measure of the temper(ature) of our times. We are all breathing the same air, through inter-arts and inter-cultural collaboration we invited witnessing air, atmospheres, breaths and cosmologies in relation. Choreographer Carol Brown, sound artist Russell Scoones, performer/researcher Tia Reihana and dancer Neža Jamnikar took audience on a journey to the edge of Lake Wanaka. En route audience listened to stories and sounds emerging from the Company’s collaboration with atmospheric research scientists at NIWA’s Lauder Station.