Experiments in acoustic observation

video installation & live performance

2024

This is an observation exercise.

Observation in the broadest sense of the term: remaining to feel, it’s listening, physical observation, and reflection.

This observation experiment is articulated in two twin video installations within the exhibition ‘Feeling Good – Caimi design for the future’ at the ADI Design Museum.

A performer will be your guide, accompanying you through the exhibition and sensory journey, narrating it through body movements. Each passage of the choreography is shaped by a specific object in the room. This assonance between body and object is articulated in terms of posture, stage presence, and forces at play.

Just as objects have an impact on the surrounding environment, choreographic movement also echoes in space.
To visualize the multitude of forces we don’t see, there is moving dust: its constant motion is modeled once on the behavior of air and once on that of water.

The mass of particles dances, stimulated in real-time by the performer’s movement and sound.

The second chapter of the project is ‘Resonances’, a live performance in the context of the exhibition. This moment moves in the opposite direction and raises the question of how the environment influences the body.

The scene begins with performers in two physically separate and sonically inhospitable environments. There is a precise moment in the action that breaks this solitude and opens up the possibility of a new way of dancing, a pas de deux.

All of this aims to pose a question: what does it mean to find a balance between individual and environment?

What does it mean to harmonize an encounter?