WANTED 3 MINUTE VIDEO CLIPS FOR ‘BACKYARD DANCES’
FOR ‘THE ELECTROSMOG FESTIVAL’ 19 – 21 March (NZ time)
WITH SUPPORT FROM AOTEAROA DIGITAL ARTISTS NETWORK
BACKYARD DANCES is an on-line community dance that brings the
ordinary and the local to the global stage. It is to be performed
live with support from ADA as part of the Electrosmog Festival.
We need help to create a global community, an online neighbourhood of
backyard ‘dancers’. Transform your backyard into a screen
‘dance’ to be used in an online community dance project that
responds to the question, can remote connections become a truly
rewarding experience in and of themselves?
WANTED
30 sec - 3 minute videos transcribing the terrain of your backyard,
the micro and the macro, the gritty and the serene, the discarded and
the sculptured through the lens of a camera. Take us on a journey,
offer a new perspective, strap your camera (it can be any camera as
long as it does end up being in a digital format you can email - or
put online) to your foot, your knee, your elbow or your head and make
a recording of the path made by your private (or not so private)
dance in your own backyard.
Send us your recordings (no more than 3 minute qtvr/mp4) and these
will be transcribed into a choreographic score for a performed series
of solo dances from divergent places. This global ensemble
facilitates a new community of backyard dancers who will perform live
as part of the Electrosmog Festival.
Send your images or enquiries to:
[email protected]
MP4’s and Quicktime movies accepted
DEADLINE FOR VIDEO SUBMISSIONS: 12th March 2010
MORE ABOUT THE PROJECT AND THE ELECTROSMOG FESTIVAL
ElectroSmog is a new festival that revolves around the concept,
Sustainable Immobility. By Sustainable Immobility the festival refers
to ‘a critique of current systems of hyper mobility of people and
products in travel and transport, and their ecological
unsustainability.’
In the quest to create a more sustainable life style, the festival
aims to ‘celebrate stronger links to local cultures, while at the
same time deepening our connections to others across any geographical
divide, using new communication technologies instead of physical
travel.’
The Electrosmog festival sets out to critically re-examine these
possibilities and seriously start to turn them into viable choices.
More can be found out about the Festival at http://
www.electrosmogfestival.net/
The paradox in using new information technologies to resolve the
proposed unsustainable ‘hyper mobile existence’ is the effect of
immobilization at the most local site of all, our bodies.
Responding to the screen as a dominating presence and the
provocation ‘Designing for Immobility’ motivates the question -
what occurs to the body and proprioceptive capabilities in these
environments? We once relied on our sensory-motor responses to
navigate distance, now we substitute the eyes and semiotics via the
screen surface to ‘defy distance’. Time, space and body relations
have entered a genesis. ‘BACKYARD DANCES’ investigates the role of
our bodies matter in the promise of ubiquity: being everywhere at
once, while staying at home, in our own backyard.
In response to this, ‘BACKYARD DANCES’ needs you to go out into
your backyard with a camera. ‘BACKYARD DANCES’ transports the
backyard as actuated space for live choreography using web cameras,
chat rooms, transcriptions, the imagination, text and the dancing body.
Become part of a community dance through digital image making,
embodied to make a dance ensemble made from a collection of moving
image found in your ‘own backyard’.
Definition of backyard Oxford Concise Dictionary:
1. a yard at the back of a house, etc.
in one's own back yard
2. near at hand
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