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Autopoiesis
Autopoiesis
(2003-2005)
is a multimedia performance for violin, electroluminescent wires, and
two laptops that perform live video and sound processing.
Created
by Liubo
Borissov and Maja Cerar,
Autopoiesis
is a work that creates imagined realities and is, in part, also
a
document of the discussions between the two authors about the beginning
of the universe. It tackles the idea of existing in more than one place
at a single time and coping with a duplicate of oneself. It is also an
exploration of degrees in and limits to comprehending relations between
cause and effect, between mass and vacuum, and is played out in a
dialogue between a physical figure and its virtual (projected)
manifestation, in which both of them constantly move and change without
evolving.
One
could see the
lines projected on the screen as representing an
immediate perception of reality, the glowing wire on stage a scientific
investigation of matter and force determining its movement. In this
spectacle, the violinist and artist behind the computer who are pulling
the strings, without the audience exactly seeing how or knowing why,
become the mythological explanation of the forces of the
illusion.
In
performance,
the hall is darkened as much as possible and the
violinist wears a uniquely designed set of glowing elwires. A video
camera is trained on the violinist, and a computer tracks her
movements. As she moves, the computer uses the information of her
location to process the sound of the violin and the moving image of her
figure. These computer-generated materials are then projected back into
the performance space via loudspeakers and a large video screen located
onstage behind the violinist.
Autopoiesis
was
performed in 2003 at the ThreeTwo festival
for contemporary dance, music and video at the Merce Cunningham dance
studio, the Princeton
Electroacoustic Music Festival, in 2004 at Columbia
University's 250th Anniversary Celebration, the SPARK'05 festival
and ICMC
Barcelona 2005 (with
Doug Geers on processing).
Autopoiesis
is
the first part of the trilogy
Autopoiesis / Mimesis (2007) /
Catharsis (2008),
inspired by early philosophical questions on the nature of creation,
reality and the realm of ideal forms and their representation through
art.
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