A black-wrapped body toys with artefacts – cyan gel, smoke puff, bulb dangle, nylon sliver, perspectival mirror – against an industrial whiteness.
A photographic lens snatches instants and instances of movement – gravities and air flows and breaths made manifest, Bacon-esque distortions of bodily form, streak traces of light – as only it can.
A seemingly real-time editing process reanimates one-thousand-plus images before our eyes to make a post-engineered stop-motion choreography.
Three outlooks – a performer interacting with objects and space across time in illusory ways, captured by an active and shifting photographer in flashes that are then layered and cut anew by an editor – combined to create a sc(re)enic event.
The playful post-production process has ultimate power over the proceedings. Elements are isolated, resized and reframed, glitched and swiped and spliced, intensified, contrasted and collapsed. We hear the keyboard tap of the creator, correlations coughed into place. See windows into windows hiding windows over windows chasing windows.
Singular objects, from myriad places and moments, are conjured into the construct of a singular on-screen timeline and setting. Other bodies are recomposed from fragments of the same body, its chorus of movements multiplied, remixed and reimagined. Actions are set free from their own times and spaces to dance in concert.
Light and illusion, space and time made continuous across timeframes and perceptions, in parallel with actions, movements and positions.
L.I.S.T./ing – light and illusion, space and time, made motion.
thoughts on L.I.S.T./ING by Michalis Theophanous
A video dance piece.
