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November 15, 2007
"Allegorica: A Videodance Vaudeville in Nine Acts"
Yesterday I had the opportunity to see U-M dance prof's, Peter Sparling, "Allegorica: A Videodance Vaudeville in Nine Acts." The installation is in the Digital Media Commons in the Duderstadt and will be there until this saturday, November 17th. All nine acts are improvised and projected onto five screens which contain mapped sequences of themes pertaining to the human condition. Greed, physical suffering, and lost love are only a few. Images are fragmented, sometimes overlapping. Illuminated objects incorporated in the filmed acts are placed in the middle of the room for audience members to explore as the video sequence plays.
Posted by pbali at November 15, 2007 10:47 PM
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Fantastic! Peter Sparling frequently takes advantage of auddience immersion in his work, allowing the blurring of boundary between audience and work, as those who participate in the work become part of the work, and each immersed person creates an aspect of the work that extends it. Resonance in this sense becomes quite visual and, well, real.
Posted by: thyliasm at November 26, 2007 01:32 PM
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