yaGrid
Video
2021
Athens, Greece
Still from work, @ Irini Kalaitzidi, 2021
yaGrid, standing for yet another grid, is one more digital lattice of windows in the cloud, somewhere in-between Zoom, Jitsi, and Google Meet. It is created to host a speculative dance coming-together of human and non-human participants with an intention to challenge the prevailing anthropocentric way of experiencing a dance encounter.
In this video/web artwork, a good few Kinect-mediated stick figures are brought in, as non-human agencies, to dance with humans. As beings of unparalleled neutrality and digital simplicity, the stick figures drain the body of excess information, thus sparking the imagination of those watching, inviting them to invent or discover things in this direction. What percentage of them is actual matter? What percentage is flesh or wave, sound or pixels?
More extensive analysis of the work can be found in Onassis' page of yaGrid.
yaGrid in Onassis New Choreographers Festival 8, 2021
C R E D I T S
Concept | Choreography | Tech development: Irini Kalaitzidi
Appearing: Maria Vourou, Irini Kalaitzidi, Efthimios Moschopoulos, esther, kostas, chimera, and 19 anonymous participants
Sound artist: Nikos Tsolis
Filming and Digital media support: Stathis Doganis
Production management: Delta Pi
Special thanks to Euripides Laskaridis, Marina Giagia, Veatriki Kapnisi, Areti Athanasopoulos, Despina Sanida, and Zoi Mastrotheodorou.
yaGrid was created with the support of Onassis Stegi.
Poster of work, @ Irini Kalaitzidi, 2021
Screened in:
- - 25th Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts (DRHA) Conference 2021: Digital Matters - Designing / Performing Agency for the Anthropocene, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Sep 2021
- - The Mill of Performing Arts, Larissa, Sep 2021
- - Stegi Onassis Foundation, as part of the Onassis New Choreographers Festival 8, Athens, Mar 2021