Short thoughts

Hallo I'm Ambra,

I just want to write a small resume of my latest thoughts.

I'm happy to going on experimenting with video projections on live bodies and the collaboration with Filip and his animation will be enriching the process.

As i was working on it last summer now working out ideas with Lotta,Filip and Arnald I'm getting new inputs...so I will be happy to go on and perhaps come to a point of exibhition.

Lotta I like that you brainstormed a lot around it!And all the ideas are very interesting.

But I have to say that I have the feeling you just posted your own ready made idea of show, I don't say is bad, but to me for example it sound perhaps not so charming anymore ( also for others to take part in it) because it looked a already finished process.

What I would like is to find easy and smart methods to work with this tools and then if we all go for the same contents and aesthetichs I would say let's go for a commun exibhition or demonstration.

Another possibility that I like is to present each own version of the same technical tools, developing each ones our own perspective or aesthetic or performance...whatever it come out of this experimentation.

I booked my flight for Brussels the 16th of february and I will go back the 24th..just that you and Filip basicly know my schedule and relative possibilities of presence.

idea

This is the idea about live animation that I worked/spoke about with specially Filip and Ambra. Down below is our idea filtered through my brain, and as we spoke with Boris... it's still totally open, so see it as inspiration if you wanna contribute.

the live animation of a contemporary body

Concept:

Through both real and videoprojected changes we transform two people between each other, age, looks and gender. With a surreal language punch at beauty industry, look behind facial transformations as smiles, yawnings and surgery. Wishing to awake thoughts and also create a bit of disgust.

Estetchics;
Raw, naked, dark, dirty, abused, infected, (secret plastic surgery clinic?).
Movements inspired by clay animated movies.

Colors:
Brown, blood, sepia

visual set up:

two people (A&B), one on each side of a rectangular room (prefearably man and woman...)

one camera catching person A who with a projector is projected on person B on the other side of the room, a second set up going the other way around.

video mixer chosing who is projected upon.

Additional projecting material (prerecorded)

set up audio:

prerecorded voice fragments of different people, sometimes synced with prerecorded video material.

loudspeaker by each person in the space

maybe small microphones for live speach (person A's voice through B's speaker...)


CRUCIAL:

Image fitting and live lip sync!


Audience:
Stands on the long side of the room, able to see actions in both directions.
the focus shifts from right to left, sometimes left person is projected on the right and at other times right person on the left. Sometimes prerecorded material (possible on both?)


TOOLS:
"minimal" live physical movements from 2 dancers (ex. inspired by Butho)
clay animations (transforming body parts, ex perfect boobs deforming, both live and on video)
changing layers of clothes
layers of nylon stockings
bodypaint (maybe skin colored light pink)
mirrors

+prerecorded visual material consisting of actions and transformation on high speed, different people of different ages probably shot in the same environment(?) as performing. (Eating, talking, being)

+prerecorded voices. Private sounds laughters, farts, humming and also maybe jibberjabber "surgery statements" ex: "...to create the look that you deserve we need to dig into the core of your knee capsule and remodulate the essence of your smooth muscle device"

maybe body double in clay to be able to walk out on your own person (nice ending... like leaving your body... could be nice with a movement breakout in silence as an answer to the audiovisual abuse...)

flat in Brussels

Ambra,
I totally like your idea, but as I said in the workshop it's hard for me to leave my home base (Stockholm) much more than I already do. I will think of ways for me to contribute even if I can't be physically present as much as I wish.

Lotta

Hello everyone,

This blog is the perfect environment/space for not forgetting all the interesting stuff we are hearing or learning from the artists/theoreticans who have given workshops.

The workshops often have a heavy 'weight': we get so much different input (wich is positive), we learn new and get to see many things (also from each other), that it's sometimes very difficult to find some kind of a structure in it.

That's why I felt this certain need to just write some things that kept hanging in my memory-space since the last two Masterclass weeks, by using this blog.

I know we have to make plans for our projects and all that, but I often like to press the pause-bar to 'stop and see and/or goïng into the past' instead of the future.

This brings me to my idea >> rewind <<: STOP and/or go to the past, using your memory-space, find a structure and put it on the blog.

I'll use this method in something I found amazing.

First recollection: As I stop and I go back in time, I remember, and I try to visualize the past workshops, there's something that sticks somewhere in my head: a detail of a work of Marius Watz. On http://youtube.com/watch?v=vjdrlmYKh40 you will see the work am referring to. But the thing you won't see because of the bad resolution of the movie, is the thing I will talk about. When a certain soundfrequency was added by Marius, the circles of his work started to get bigger to a point where you were almost 'in the circles'. What I liked about this — but was not the intention of his work I guess — was the texture you saw on the edges of the circles; you could amost feel or touch the circle because of it's texture. But then, when the frequency got lower the circles got smaller and the texture flowed away.

This simple structure brings me to the simple conclusion that I feel greath with the idea of almost-touching/feeling a pure virtual moving image... So maybe these last words could be a project proposal.

I personally think that it's very interesting to start from an abstract level like this in creating ideas for a project. So I freely invite you all to make use of this pause-button by using this blog. From there on things might automatically grow in maybe a more philosophical direction but still open practical guides.

Multi-Media Flat !

Hallo everybody,I'm Ambra.

Back in Berlin since yesterday night an dthinking about Cimatics projects.

I have to say that I'm quiet happy about the inputs tht I collect through the contac wiht the group.

As a first message I would like to ask to everybodu to gives theyr opininion about my idea to rent a flat together in Brussels around april (before the last workshop ) or after in May.

The idea would be to put a small part of each one budget to rent a flat (more or less empty)made of 4-5 rooms for a period fo 3 weeks.

I imagine to use the flat for work and exibhition at the same time..better say that in my mind I would like to work inside the flat (1 or 2 group-project in each room)and then 2 or 3 times a week to open the flat to public inviting people to share with us works in progress or different installations or performances.

What I like is that insteda of one-day exibhition(which would be anyway possible) teh "Multi-Media Flat"would be a possibility to collect interested persons,perhaps organizing some small conference or explanation of teh works and the collaborations we will build up.

I feel the flat as an Happening and as a chance to better get closer to audience and potential interested people to this "Flat Project".

I have to say I'm quiet exited about it!

I would like to know what you all think about and who would be interested to partecipate in it.

I think is not super easy to find the perfect flat to do that but I also think is not impossible!

I will write again later about my specific interaction that I would like too develop...for the instant I wait your answers and questions.

Good night

Ambra

skype contact : kokoroberlin