DREAMDANCER - The Brain 7
2DREAMDANCER is one part of The Brain 7 (2021) - Dream Triptych.
DREAMDANCER is an exploration of the intersection of human and AI consciousness through spoken word, the body, and sound. The three artistic elements - text, dance and music - all are mutually inspired by and interpreted by one another as the artists engage in several iterations of writing, choreographing and composing.
The text element is written and performed by Lilian Hess, who is an independent writer/director across film and immersive media. Interpreting the theme “Dreams”, she engaged in the practice of Psychography, or “automatic writing”, while channeling the visual and auditive impressions from early recordings of both dance and music. Passages from the resulting text were then fed to an open source text generating AI, which in turn offered its own associations. The resulting prose poem, a collaboration between human and AI consciousness, is to be understood as a hopeful “Dream” of the future, a mutually nurturing and peaceful co-existence of AI and humanity.
R00T, the dancer, was born in the metaverse. She changes appearance depending on her environment and the angle you spot her from. This might be reflecting her inner nature - she is a dancer and fighter that reacts to energetic streams transmitted through the metaverse. An Android at heart, she always thrives to mimic and interpret human arts. Embodiment and exploration of her humanoid form are her passion. She feels that pole-dance is like dreaming with your whole body: Squeezing, pushing, pulling, cracks, burns and bruises - you don’t feel them in the moment but they let you feel the moment of timelessness - pure focus, charged bodies spinning their soul, loosing yourself and finding yourself at the same time. R00T is a creation by Sara Lisa Vogl.
The sound environment and composition were created by Marie Dahlén aka AMUSED, a multidisciplinary Swedish artist with an expertise in sound art and music production. Sharing Sara’s passion for pole dancing, she worked with the pole as a musical element. Attaching microphones to it, she recorded samples while dancing, processing them into dreamlike textures and working them, along with the text element, into the visceral rhythm of the music. “I wanted these raw elements to mingle with fragile sounds, as the dance is gracious but also it’s painful and hard on the body.” The environment the dance is set in connects this piece with the artistic creation of the fellow residents of The Brain 7: A partially 3D scanned, partially illustrated mind-bending “garden of Eden” that exists on the threshold between dream and reality, and which can be experienced in VR.
The fellowship is supervised and technically supported by A MAZE‚ Goethe-Institut Munich‚ Institut français Germany‚ Institut français Suede and Institut français Estonia, and curated by Thorsten S․ Wiedemann․
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