| Title | “Sol. VIII” & “Columbia – The Capsule” |
| Year | 2005 |
| Location | London |
| Brief | Video projections for theatre |
| Notes | See video pages “Sol. VIII” and “T.A.Z. 5.4” |
Multimedia projections for two performance pieces are presented here. Three video pieces for “Sol. VIII”, performed at the Cochrane Theatre, and one video piece for “Columbia – The Capsule”, performed at the Battersea Arts Centre. The set of three video projection constructs on flesh and body were produced for “Sol. VIII”, a performance based on Antonin Artaud’s “Spurt of Blood”. The piece explored the agony of loss of innocence, confusion and confinement. The video projections were displayed on dynamic canvas screens that shifted, were painted on, and interacted upon by the performers. This video would later serve as a starting point for an urban confinement project in Lisbon based on ideas of fantasy, temptation, and Foucault’s writings on confinement spaces and madness.
¶ For “Columbia”, a virual environment was re-used as a video proection. The T.A.Z. video projection construct was the culmination of a series of investigations into the nature of data-driven morphing virtual-environments. It is the virtual manifestation of the London installation without the barriers of physical materials. It was later integrated into a projection video for “Columbia – The Capsule”, a music opera commissioned by the Battersea Arts Centre and directed by Julia Holander. The animation is a continuous self-driven virtual environment reacting and growing according to its own rules. It consists of groups of four structures morphing into different data-driven states. Underneath these structures lies a subway system of data-tubes and data-globes. These carry the real-world statistical figures that control the morphing and displacement of the TAZ forms. It is in essence a social-migratory virtual dance driven by French immigration statistics and left to evolve and create its own relationships.