Seek and Hide

Seek and Hide is a continuously evolving installation combining animation, contemporary dance and music exploring the theme of illusion, empathy through the use of improvisation.

The audience have an exclusive view of two separate worlds: the physical and the illusory, existing at the same moment in time. Both the dancer and the characters use the space we build to connect the two worlds together. The windows create opportunities for the physical and digital characters to peek through, to flirt with each other, to play and to communicate through sign and body language.

As a multi-disciplinary collective, we are interested in using several mediums to tell the story of these characters as a method of enhancing the thematic of illusion. Through the use of projectors and layered transparent fabric, the animation is duplicated in different sizes and locations; taking the film out of its’ flat screen mode and beginning to exist in physical space. The dancer interacting with the digital characters breaks the rational barrier between illusory and physical, portraying a multiverse of simultaneous happenings and interactions. The dancer attempts to reach the digital characters by removing the fabrics one by one, reducing the layers of projection until the illusory worlds are united on a singular projection and the dancer leaves the space. The dancer cannot physically reach the digital characters’ dimension, however subtly highlights the question of a future possibility: will people cease to exist and the artificial live on?

Using many layers of individual sound samples emphasises the surreal nature of our work in progress. The music progressively changes tempo and pitch which is an additional interaction for the dancer’s movement dynamics.

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