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[Text available only in English] by Réka Harsányi and Dóra Ida Szűcs
Our biofeedback based audiovisual performance, called Birth, is about an unseenstory. This artwork converge with experiment, using technology to creatively reinterpret the imperceptible of the unseen life, inside a human body through biological processes. The ECG and Pulse sensors attached to the dancer’s body measure not only the heartbeat of her, but also the movements of her certain muscles like arm and chest. These data are controlling the pulse of the LEDstrip around her in real-time. As a result this light-uterus behaves as a living organism, in harmony with its inhabitants, until its creatures leave it. However, as she becomes more familiar with her environment and herself, she increasingly desires for new stimuli. While she provokes those stimuli, she recognises the sounds of her organs and the limitations of her body and surroundings from which she wanted to brake out, so that later she may be beginning the process again on the other side.
Light-uterus what surrounds, closes, embraces, – self-awareness, inquiry, awakening, detect the invisible, blindness, scanning, self-examination – the body that restrain, – preparation, struggling, desire to act, eruption, mind, escape, wonderment, restart.
During the rehearsal we have found the novel I Gave Up Before Birth by Samuel Beckett. It made a deep impact on us. Its complexity symbolises our thoughts about being inside, or being alive as a human.
http://harsanyireka.net/birth-biofeedback-performance-2016/
https://connectedbodiesteam.wordpress.com/2016/02/26/birth-biofeedback-performance-2016/
Our biofeedback based audiovisual performance, called Birth, is about an unseenstory. This artwork converge with experiment, using technology to creatively reinterpret the imperceptible of the unseen life, inside a human body through biological processes. The ECG and Pulse sensors attached to the dancer’s body measure not only the heartbeat of her, but also the movements of her certain muscles like arm and chest. These data are controlling the pulse of the LEDstrip around her in real-time. As a result this light-uterus behaves as a living organism, in harmony with its inhabitants, until its creatures leave it. However, as she becomes more familiar with her environment and herself, she increasingly desires for new stimuli. While she provokes those stimuli, she recognises the sounds of her organs and the limitations of her body and surroundings from which she wanted to brake out, so that later she may be beginning the process again on the other side.
Light-uterus what surrounds, closes, embraces, – self-awareness, inquiry, awakening, detect the invisible, blindness, scanning, self-examination – the body that restrain, – preparation, struggling, desire to act, eruption, mind, escape, wonderment, restart.
During the rehearsal we have found the novel I Gave Up Before Birth by Samuel Beckett. It made a deep impact on us. Its complexity symbolises our thoughts about being inside, or being alive as a human.
http://harsanyireka.net/birth-biofeedback-performance-2016/
https://connectedbodiesteam.wordpress.com/2016/02/26/birth-biofeedback-performance-2016/
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About
[Text available only in English] by Réka Harsányi and Dóra Ida Szűcs
Our biofeedback based audiovisual performance, called Birth, is about an unseenstory. This artwork converge with experiment, using technology to creatively reinterpret the imperceptible of the unseen life, inside a human body through biological processes. The ECG and Pulse sensors attached to the dancer’s body measure not only the heartbeat of her, but also the movements of her certain muscles like arm and chest. These data are controlling the pulse of the LEDstrip around her in real-time. As a result this light-uterus behaves as a living organism, in harmony with its inhabitants, until its creatures leave it. However, as she becomes more familiar with her environment and herself, she increasingly desires for new stimuli. While she provokes those stimuli, she recognises the sounds of her organs and the limitations of her body and surroundings from which she wanted to brake out, so that later she may be beginning the process again on the other side.
Light-uterus what surrounds, closes, embraces, – self-awareness, inquiry, awakening, detect the invisible, blindness, scanning, self-examination – the body that restrain, – preparation, struggling, desire to act, eruption, mind, escape, wonderment, restart.
During the rehearsal we have found the novel I Gave Up Before Birth by Samuel Beckett. It made a deep impact on us. Its complexity symbolises our thoughts about being inside, or being alive as a human.
http://harsanyireka.net/birth-biofeedback-performance-2016/
https://connectedbodiesteam.wordpress.com/2016/02/26/birth-biofeedback-performance-2016/
Our biofeedback based audiovisual performance, called Birth, is about an unseenstory. This artwork converge with experiment, using technology to creatively reinterpret the imperceptible of the unseen life, inside a human body through biological processes. The ECG and Pulse sensors attached to the dancer’s body measure not only the heartbeat of her, but also the movements of her certain muscles like arm and chest. These data are controlling the pulse of the LEDstrip around her in real-time. As a result this light-uterus behaves as a living organism, in harmony with its inhabitants, until its creatures leave it. However, as she becomes more familiar with her environment and herself, she increasingly desires for new stimuli. While she provokes those stimuli, she recognises the sounds of her organs and the limitations of her body and surroundings from which she wanted to brake out, so that later she may be beginning the process again on the other side.
Light-uterus what surrounds, closes, embraces, – self-awareness, inquiry, awakening, detect the invisible, blindness, scanning, self-examination – the body that restrain, – preparation, struggling, desire to act, eruption, mind, escape, wonderment, restart.
During the rehearsal we have found the novel I Gave Up Before Birth by Samuel Beckett. It made a deep impact on us. Its complexity symbolises our thoughts about being inside, or being alive as a human.
http://harsanyireka.net/birth-biofeedback-performance-2016/
https://connectedbodiesteam.wordpress.com/2016/02/26/birth-biofeedback-performance-2016/
Author
Hungary Budapest
Performances
BIRTH, BIOFEEDBACK PERFORMANCE, 2016
Reka Harsanyi
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