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Insight, collaboration with Kunst-stoff (www.kunst-stoff.org), "Insight" by KUNST-STOFF's Artistic Director, Yannis Adoniou, and photographer, Cara Judea Alhadeff, developed and premiered at ODC Theater in San Francisco, as part of KUNST_STOFF's 2004-2005 Artist-in-Residence. An intensely visual ride
through the wor Technical elements:
Cara Judea Alhadeff and Nicole Sumner present: Papaya seeds oozing in between toes, the sound of clicking teeth as they morph into an echoey sucking noise--this is the vocal "undoing" and reconstruction of a projected two-dimensional image. In a series of three shows, photographer Alhadeff and vocal improviser/poet Sumner unravel the performance of photography and the performance of its viewing. Playing with subjects from desire to disease, from art censorship to self-censorship, each performance of Tongue and Trigger integrates audience comments, digitally delayed sound effects, improvised text, and 25 by 20-foot color slide projections. This "luminescent dialogue" explores the fluidity of perception--what we think we see and hear. Sumner plays with voice as found object, bringing to the surface the evidence of tough--compression, exertion, and release--found in the making of Alhadeff's photographs. |
lds of our insides-- "In-sight" is
a multi-media work exploring the notion of the body
as a permeable boundary. We are all contained in
our own skin, yet the body is also the tool through
which we experience things outside. Going a step
beyond, "In-sight" inhabits the liminal
world of turning the inside-out. Movement and image
are woven together in a rich visual world of projected
floor-to-ceiling photographs, creating an ethereal,
color saturated, permeable set through which the dancers
move. They are transformed as they discover ambiguities
of their own corporeality. Their hallucinatory and
sometimes hysterical movements draw out the anxiety
and beauty within theprojected images, metaphorically
drawing us all out of our own skin. As the piece progresses,
still more 
projection
surfaces are revealed--small cubes at the front of
the stage, large floating membranes that move up and
down stage to bring a part of an image suddenly closer
or more directly into focus--all metaphors for how
the body becomes a living border between sensuality
and restraint, surrender and resistance. This is a
work about the physics of touch and the fluidity of
perception in a supposedly solid world. The performance
is a revealing conversation between image and movement
taken to a new level of emotional, visceral depth through
unconventional and strikingly beautiful means.