INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION PARADISO senses+spaces at JULIDANS FESTIVAL AMSTERDAM

[Marlon Barrios Solano]

INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION PARADISO senses+spaces

at JULIDANS FESTIVAL AMSTERDAM

7th-8th July from 18h00 until 20h00

at Theater Bellevue

The interactive Installation PARADISO senses+spaces will be presented at the international Dance festival Julidans.

PARADISO is a series of two interactive dance films. Its two levels, "senses" and "spaces," address sensory awareness and kinesthetic learning. Dancer and choreographer Bertha Bermudez (Amsterdam), her filmmaker Maite Bermudez (Barcelona) and media artist and director Chris  Ziegler expand cinematic experience into physicality and deliver an artistic review on the present hype surrounding 3D cinema. The film was shot in the eternal ice of the Arctic and Antarctic, in the deserts of Africa and in other inhospitable parts of the world.

 

In the first level of PARADISO - "senses" - the viewer is "touched" by the dancer’s movement. Force feedback sensors with electroactive polymers and a custom-built 4D chair give tactile feedback on the skin of the viewer. Image, sound, wind and evaporated perfumes activate almost all the senses: sight, hearing, touch and smell.

 

PARADISO’s second level - "spaces" - connects the viewer’s kinesphere to  the camera of the film. Watching the dancer’s movements in the film leads the viewer into the movement of the camera’s viewing angle. In an expansion of Vertov's mental montage in early 20th century filmmaking, the viewer of PARADISO generates an interactive physical montage.

PARADISO is the last phase of the film project film trilogy IMAGINED DANTE by Las Negras Productions, Imagined Hell, Imagined Purgatory and Imagined Paradiso.  This project is inspired by choreographers Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten and their Dante's trilogy, Inferno, Purgatorio and you Para | Diso.

With support from The Amsterdam International Choreographic Arts Center ICK/Emio Greco | PC (NL) and Flying Elephant Foundation - Gregory Colbert (USA/FR), city council of Munich, Muffathalle Munich and Center for Art and Media ZKM Karlsruhe.