Online Exhibition
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
22nd - 26th June 2020
Daily posts will be put on throughout the week from 10:00 am.
Reminder to scroll down for new material each day.
Monday 22nd - An Archive of Scores.
Tuesday 23rd - Extending the Body as a Sculpture.
Wednesday 24th - The Process and Rhythm of Ink.
Thursday 25th - Process of the Costume.
Friday 26th - 'Experiments of Traces' Video Collaboration on YouTube, 12:15pm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAtG1Ta977M&feature=youtu.be
Tracing the score- explores the concept of body, movement, time and space. How leaving a trace within the space or creating one can represent a score. The score is made up of my 2d drawings and 3d sculptures which will act as a stimulus for the performer to inhabit the space and create their own trace from an instruction.
An Archive of Scores
This archive represents a conversation with the dancers on how the respond to a simple line to create movement then from that movement how I create a sculpture. The last sketch is a collaboration with the scenographers where they were given a gesture and needed to respond by making a new trace.
Response from a score (2020) Collaboration with dancers. In order of their appearance: Emily Toledo, Katie White, Julia Sudzinsky and Stephanie Lewis.
These sculptures created in 1:25 captures a response from the dancers movements and how it can be used in the space as a speculative design. Although it felt that these sculptures were static in the space with no movement which made me question how to make these sculptures move.
Extending the Body as a Sculpture
Moving like the sculptures (2020) Collaboration from left to right: Stephanie Lewis (Dancer), Laura Honeybun (Scenographer), Rebecca Long (Dancer) and Emily Toledo (Dancer).
From this experiment online playing with the model and the dancers response to the light, creating shadows and movement for these sculptures. My next idea was to think about how these sculptures can move like the dancer.
These drawings look at the dancer becoming the sculpture and these strips of elastics are extending from the dancers body into the space to create the restriction for the dancer and for them to become an object.
The Process and Rhythm of Ink
From experimenting with the ink and using different materials to see what absorbed the ink more and create a trace within the space. The next part was editing some traces and experimenting with the dynamics and looking at the memory of a repeated trace.
Rhythm of Trace (2020) Laura Honeybun (Performer).
This edited video has been passed onto the dancers, I have given them a clear instruction to use one part of their body to create a trace by responding to the rhythm within this video. This is to see what movements are created and what traces they leave behind in the space from their restrictions of only using one part of their body .
Process of the Costume
These are drawings of my design for the elastic sculpture costume the dancer would wear this in the space in order to become the design and create a trace.
Photographs of the costume close up and on my body. I decided to use wool and neoprene only for the elastic pieces as from my last experiment they absorbed the ink more and created the traces.
The Human Paintbrush (2020). From this puppet performance I wanted to see how the person might move in the space and use the ends of the costume dipped in ink to create traces.
'Experiments of Traces' Video Collaboration
This collaboration is divided into three parts looking at using projection, lasers and ink traces within the space. To combine two scenographers practices to see what traces can be recorded in the space and manipulate the dancers movements.
Premieres: 26th June 2020 12:15pm on YouTube
Experiments of Traces (2020) Video Collaboration by Chenwei Wang (Scenographer), Emily Toldeo (Dancer), Laura Honeybun (Scenographer) and Lin Yun Hsin (Dancer).
Special thanks to: Dani Ploeger, Eva Auster, Jonathan Munro, Joanna Parker, Mauricio Elorriaga, Simon Donger, Sophie Jump.
Special thanks to my collaborators: Chenwei Wang, Emily Toledo, Julia Sudzinsky, Katie White, Lin Yun Hsin, Rebecca Long and Stephanie Lewis.