I CAME BY MYSELF TO A
VERY CROWDED PLACE
Work in progress
I Came By Myself To A Very Crowded Place is a multimedia performerless performance for one audience member at a time, site specific for a window.
A telescope set high above the city invites the audience to pry into the street, where a secret cinematic plot is unfolding. What they are actually seeing is a video previously filmed from that window, viewed through a video display installed inside the carcass of the telescope.
The familiar urban space is re-imagined and re-choreographed, becoming the stage for an ambiguous conspiracy, of which the viewer is simultaneous observer and protagonist.
Throughout, an enigmatic invisible personage from a ‘past present’ accompanies you in the room, while additional binaural sound reinvents the immersive soundtrack of the cityscape and the room in which you sit.
Reality, fiction, film and everyday life entwine to create a rich atmosphere of mystery and intrigue, a crossing point where things can seemingly be at arms reach yet out of your control.
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This project will be developed on a residency at Battersea Arts Centre and at The Basement, Brighton, with mentoring from Blast Theory and Daniel Marcus Clark and additional support from South East Dance and Nottdance11.
Funded by Arts Council England.
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• 4, 10 & 12 Feb | scratch events at Battersea Arts Centre | London
• 27 Feb 2011 | work-in-progress at Nottdance | Nottingham
Work in progress
I Came By Myself To A Very Crowded Place is a multimedia performerless performance for one audience member at a time, site specific for a window.
A telescope set high above the city invites the audience to pry into the street, where a secret cinematic plot is unfolding. What they are actually seeing is a video previously filmed from that window, viewed through a video display installed inside the carcass of the telescope.
The familiar urban space is re-imagined and re-choreographed, becoming the stage for an ambiguous conspiracy, of which the viewer is simultaneous observer and protagonist.
Throughout, an enigmatic invisible personage from a ‘past present’ accompanies you in the room, while additional binaural sound reinvents the immersive soundtrack of the cityscape and the room in which you sit.
Reality, fiction, film and everyday life entwine to create a rich atmosphere of mystery and intrigue, a crossing point where things can seemingly be at arms reach yet out of your control.
*
This project will be developed on a residency at Battersea Arts Centre and at The Basement, Brighton, with mentoring from Blast Theory and Daniel Marcus Clark and additional support from South East Dance and Nottdance11.
Funded by Arts Council England.
*
• 4, 10 & 12 Feb | scratch events at Battersea Arts Centre | London
• 27 Feb 2011 | work-in-progress at Nottdance | Nottingham
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