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| Carry me home, Image credits Les 7 Doigts |
This past December 15, 2022, I went to the introductory premiere of Carry me home by a Les 7 Doigts featuring the music and songs of Didier Stowe. For a while now Alexandre Teodoresco, Director - Strategic development and innovation for Les 7 Doigts, has been working diligently to combine live performance with the METAVERSE. The idea is quite appealing as it aims to reunite families and friends from around the world to share in a live show together.
The video linked to the title of the presentation we saw at the Montreal home of Les 7 Doigts, Carry me home, illustrates beautifully the two experimental experiences that were available to the public, the one in META where you are immersed in the virtual world where the characters live and the one where the artists perform live while they are tagged with motion capture detectors so their avatars will appear in META. I chose the perspective that is illustrated above, where the scenery is projected on the entire set. Whichever approach you chose, it allows you to experience the story told to us by Didier Stowe from his childhood to the present by the process of songs, music, acrobatics.
I truly enjoy the process part of creating art. There were a few bugs, those that accompany even the finest tech arts, but the artists were full of heart and that was great. The real advantage from where I chose to experience the circus is the dazzling backgrounds that can be deployed rapidly and the sense of motion I experienced as the scenery took us through time and space.
Here are the artists who left us breathless:
ON STAGE
Voice, Piano, Guitar & Trampo-Wall Didier Lemire Stowe
Dance & Arial Ring Verónica Herrera
Dance & Hair-Hanging Alma Danira Quintanar Valenzuela
Dance & Acrobatics Geovany Mora Escalante
Hoop Diving & Dance Téo Le Baut
More details HERE
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| Adrien M, Photo © Lena Ghio , 2022 |
I experienced the work from a yoga perspective. I lay on the floor in death pose and allowed myself to float into the immersive installation. It was quite relaxing. After the 30 minutes in the installation, we came out of the space and shared what we had experienced. There are some who have shared the experience with their family including their children. For those people, the experience was light and joyful. Those who had experienced a recent loss lived it differently but still with a reverence towards the abstract majesty life allows us.
This exhibition is ongoing until March 5 2023. Information about tickets HERE
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| Last Minute by Adrien M & Claire B |
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The theme for this BIAN is METAMORPHOSIS - MUTATION and the process of bringing the exhibition together was impacted by the limitations of the pandemic. Alain Thibault and DooEun Choi curated the exhibition and chose 26 works by 27 artists to illustrate a serious reflexion on life as we move forward with the multiple challenges ahead including the climate crisis, political corruption and the injustice of extreme poverty.
Above, a few seconds from Doku The Self (2022) by Lu Yang.
Some well established artists such as Wim Delvoye, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Michel de Broin have pieces in the show and some works are from younger still emerging artists like KONGO ASTRONAUTS a collective of artists working in Africa who totally captured my attention.
Another piece that totally fascinated me is Cloud Face - Real Time (2015) by Shinseungback Kimyonghun from South Korea. The duo consisting of engineer Shin Seung Back and artist Kim Yong Hun use artificial intelligence to detect those moments when the clouds from faces, photograph these formation, then create mystical installations where these ethereal faces are looking back at us.
Lights, mechanics, digital art, video animation and so much more are used to stretch our perception and understanding of the world around us and extra-dimensions. It will just charm you. Creation is infinite.
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