Under-presence
direction / performance: Seon-ja Seo
video: Bram Vreeswijk
sound: Gary Shepherd
light /set-up: Minna Tikkainen
Performed at the Veemtheater, Amsterdam.
For this performance I tried to create a ‘visual echo’ of Seo’s
dance. What could that be? What does it mean to work on, as we said, ‘the
same thing’, in different media?
Since Seo told me she tried to work on ‘a body without a form’,
I thought I had to make an image without an image. After working for a while
on frames, I decided that the image without an image had to be the screen. So
I took that as a basis. Projecting a screen on the screen.
The forms (after all) that appear on the screen are abstract copies of the forms
of Seo’s choreography. In the timing of the video I tried to copy the
speed/slowness of Seo’s dance, as I experienced it. So this is something
intersubjective. I didn’t measure her speed/slowness but tried to observe,
for myself, what I experienced as the amounts of change in her body. I called
this movement (in my own body) ‘the movement of curiosity’.
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In this text I talk about Under-presence.