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recent works: metadance

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Many layers of scrim-like material divide a blackened space, creating an almost invisible maze. Alphanumeric data is projected as moving text: a datascape bathing the scrim and the viewers in waterfalls of light that is a virtual translation of dance movement. The poetry and illusion in these moments lies in the confounding of depth perception that is created by the moving video projection falling in different planes in three-dimensional space. Because we can see through each layer of scrim, we can see through these waterfalls of light, but because the images are moving at different rates, our sense of where each one is in space becomes distorted. This beautiful disturbance of our perception is further enhanced by the motion of the viewers weaving in and around the screens.

Installed at Artrage's Black Box space April-May 2007 for Tura New Music's Totally Huge New Music Festival.

The Performances for the Perth International Arts Festival significantly extends the installation concept and design to include four dancers performing in the installation and in two companion pieces that, altogether, form a three-movement work.

Jambird acknowledges the support of Arts WA, Healthway 'be active', perth international arts festival, perth institute for contemporary art, graphic source, Luna Palace cinemas and edith cowan university.

 

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