Patterns
Summary
This project is a collaboration between the Dutch Interaction Designer Arne Boon, the Mexican Sonic Artist Victor Pérez-Rul Altamirano and Writer for Performances Jorrit van der Post. Combining their fields of expertise they created a performance that explores how we can better understand the nature of our being, by recognizing the patterns in our everyday lives. Patterns merges characteristics of theatre, sonic art, interactive art and games.
Context
This performance gazes into constructions of elementary components. By repetition and recognition of patterns, we humans construct and understand our world. Bricks build walls, walls become houses, houses merge into villages that become cities. Social routines and human behavior evolve from repetition and cycles. Planet Earth is just a small example of the vast universe, being part of evolving cycles. The performance explores how we could better understand the nature of our being by recognizing the patterns around us and act upon them. This basic principle reveals numerous of worlds that can be dived into smaller pieces, but always belong to bigger systems.
Concept
Fifteen people from the audience will wear a special backpack with a built-in sound system. By wearing these backpacks, the participants become performers. A soundscape is transmitted by radio frequencies and is received by the backpacks that become the sources of sound. The participants wearing backpacks also wear a headphone set, which communicates the same rule set to all participants. Their actions are creating a subtle choreography. The instructions by headphone are seamlessly interlaced with monologues. Various characters share their perspective on repetition and patterns in their lives.
Reflection
The participants wearing a backpack fulfill a very particular role within the piece. They are performing a script that is communicated at the moment itself, whereby their actions are the core of the performance. Their behavior is designed to fit the patterns of the piece. The witnessing audience is experiencing the piece from another perspective enabling them to recognize the patterns emerging as a whole. The performance is a multilayered experience telling a story about patterns through a soundscape, an audio-tour and behavior. It is up to the public to start recognizing the patterns in all the different layers according to position, space and time.
More
+ arne / arneboon@gmail.com / arneboon.nl
+ victor / astrolabioartes@yahoo.com / victorperezrulaltamirano.com
+ jorrit / jorritvanderpost@gmail.com / jorritthijn.nl
+ download patterns concept one-pager (version 2010.12.15)
+ http://triangle.hku.nl/ (developments blog)