By
BODIES IN FLIGHT
Three performers cruise the web, crashing chatrooms, flipping
identities, spinning yarns, beguiling, ensnaring unsuspecting novices, seducing
each other, pushing imagination beyond the tech spec, making a new kind of
love, mailing valentines into the void. Partly
made in Chicago and in collaboration with the band Angel Tech and film-maker
Lucy Baldwyn, skinworks – a linked web-performance event – marks the culmination
of Bodies in Flight’s exploration of cyberlove – how new desires and moods
of love emerge from sex without bodies.
“since no DNA exchanged – ha, no flesh given, no harm done”
More
about the work: skinworks will be both a
series of live performances and web-based events. We see the relationship
between the two as both ongoing and critical so we intend to create an innovative
& dynamic dialogue between (and in-between) the two different types of
activity. Through skinworks we
will continue our cross-media exploration of how flesh meets text in performance,
now realized as on-line performance in virtuality & extend our exploration
of the impact upon identity, desire and love of this virtual environment. The
linked events will invite audiences, more familiar with and comfortable in
either one medium or the other, to cross the boundaries between on-line and
live, to experience each in their own ways, each audience-member making a
site for themselves in-between these
two very different experiences.
Following on from the R & D phase of skinworks, culminating in work-in-progress
events at Arnolfini & Bonington Gallery , we hope to continue to create
an intimate spatial relationship as the performers move around & amongst
the audience fore-grounding the very fleshiness of bodies: the particularity
of human touch, the breath on the skin, the fingers’ touches, whilst also
expanding upon the interactive and performative possibilities for the web.
We will develop skinworks
through a series of duets between
and in-between the various media: i.e. body, text, film & sound in relationship
to and in dialogue with the web & push at the boundaries between &
in-between the various elements as one feeds back into another: as the sounds
of the body are taken up in the soundscape; a gesture from the screen is pre-figured
in the live; & where the performers
manipulate the technology & the technologies change their sound &
appearance.
Bodies in Flight (formed in 1989), is an artist-led organisation based in Bristol & Nottingham that makes live performance involving new technologies in cutting-edge venues. Increasingly we are also making work specifically for the www & digital domains. The nature of our work & our experience as artists allows us to respond to the individual needs & opportunities that different venues offer. We are keen to continue to develop work that is sensitive to the site that it is placed in i.e. is made site-specific. This may demand that we negotiate a relationship with those venues that wish to pursue this option that allows us a longer period to ‘get in’ to the space & to adapt & re-site the work in an appropriate way.
|
TIM
ATACK |
audio |
| LUCY BALDWYN | video |
| DOUG BOTT | audio |
| POLLY FRAME | performer |
| SARA GIDDENS | choreography |
| NEIL JOHNSON | audio |
| SIMON JONES | text |
| GRAEME ROSE | performer |
| KAYLENE TAN | performer |
| NICHOLAS WATTON | web-designer |
For Further Information contact sara@creativeforum.co.uk
or www.bodiesinflight.com