Within the Vibrant Assemblage
15 min performance
2019
London, UK
Still from performance, 2019
Within the Vibrant Assemblage is a performance of physical and digital participants who share a particular degree of dance aptitude and endurance. This work attempts to draw attention to a poetic and fuller range of the powers that circulate around and within actual and possible bodies.
Close-up extract from the projected visuals, @ Irini Kalaitzidi, 2019
The performance was created in response to an urge to exist bodily and sensorially awake within a space which is shared by physical and digital entities with a particular dance aptitube. This dance aptitude is perceived as the liveliness and the affective capacity that the theorist Jane Bennett attributes to vibrant matter. In this work, the possible materiality and dimensionality of the vibrant matter found its expression in 2-dimensional projected visuals, 3-dimensional objects made out of wood, cotton and motors and the multi-dimensional human configuration of body joints.
Stills from performance, 2019
C R E D I T S
Concept | Choreography | Sound | Tech development: Irini Kalaitzidi
Dancers | Contributors to a dataset of dance improvisation recordings (MoCap through a Kinect device): Fotis Haronis, Zoi Mastrotheodorou, Tasos Nikas, Xristina Prompona, Daphne Drakopoulou, Athina Stavropoulou, Angelos Papadopoulos, Areti Athanasopoulou, Myrto Georgiadi, Despoina Sanida Krezia, Irini Kalaitzidi
Filming and Digital media support: Stathis Doganis
Within the Vibrant Assemblage was Irini's thesis/graduation project for her MA in Computational Arts and it was performed in the immersive space (G05) of St James Church, Goldsmiths University of London, Aug-Sep 2019.