“soft animal of your body”
Blockseminar, Excursion & Event mit Prof. Annika Larsson, Vera Shchelkina und Reza Ghadyani
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As a choreographer, I love working with Isadora TroikaTronix, because it has so many hidden secrets and highlights that challenge my conception of vision as I know it.
We are focused on human perception of the world - because obviously, we are humans. But the evolution of the eye went through so many interesting and unexpected turns, that it would be a shame to forget about them.
So I would love to bring this conceptual framework into this class:
Isadora will be not a technical projection tool but our partner in perception.
We will let Isadora act as a prosthetic eye, translating our bodies into other-than-human images.
We will get bodily inputs, look through different modulations of animal vision, try it out on ourselves with the help of Isadora tools, in a way, sense through our altered vision.
Tools that we are going to use:
Live Camera Input
Low Resolution Filters of a captured image
Infrared or Threshold effects
Motion Tracking
Limited Spectrum Filters
Multilayered overlays
Distortion Filters
Sound-Image Linking
And maybe so many more!
Each tool can become a score for perception, for example:
How do I move if my partner only sees me as heat, as shadow, as blur, as afterimage?
Each tool might help us shift their kinaesthetic imagination — away from the human gaze, toward animal sensing.
The projection becomes a mirror of a non-human viewpoint — you see yourself re-mapped through other perceptual logics.
What is going to happen technically?
We are going to have 2 hours of input, and then let you explore with the groups yourself for 2-3 days. In the end of each block the groups are going to share their results.