I believe (something is happening)
! if you want to present your idea in a walk- in Camera Obscura then send us an e-mail with your proposal! sybrig@sybrigdokter.com festival@notafe.ee ! I would like to invite you to present your idea in the Camera Obscura during the festival! It can be something new, a fragment of an old work or what ever else you think you would like to try out. Please write to us about your idea, when you would like to do it and if you want an audience, so we can see if it is in fact suitable for the camera and how we should coordinate it with other proposals. Your proposal needs to be more or less self going- in other words there will not be a lot of technicians at your disposal but we will help where possible. If you want more information you are welcome to take contact.
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We are living in a world where there are things that we cannot see, that we cannot see but we know that others can see and things that we suppose to be there but cannot see at this moment, that we accept as part of the modern world of today.
I became interested in pinhole projection as a low-tech way of animating a space by allowing outside happenings to enter a room or object. Through the pinhole the world outside is transmitted into a darkened space and projected onto walls, floor and ceiling. Occurrences that are happening at that moment but that we are unable to verify if they actually take place there and then. The object that will be present during Notafe festival 2015 acts as a camera obscura that is big enough to have an audience inside it and makes it possible to be present at the moment of image creation. The object gets animated by the projection of the subjects that are present in the space around it or by a performer present in the part of the object that is inaccessible for the audience. The pinhole technique transmits the intentional and unintentional choreography that takes place in or outside the object.
Subjects become objects or occupy a position that is overlapping the two.
”An object is dead when the living glance trained upon it has disappeared.”(From the voice- over of ’Statues also die’ by Chris Marker and Alain Resnais).
The camera obscura did not only produce a new form of objectivity, though, but also a new form of subjectivity. The subject is approached as isolated from the objects in the world; it can only relate to representations. In this way the camera obscura served as a model for understanding the human subject: a ‘dark room’ in which representations were generated of an external world.
Peter-Paul Verbeek in Beyond the Human Eye.Technological Mediation and Posthuman Visions
I believe (something is happening) was first shown at festival:display, organised by Koreografiska Konstitutet, at Weld in Stockholm 2013.
Idea and performance by Sybrig Dokter
Original design CO: Sybrig Dokter
Building at Notafe: Karel Kadalipp, Kadri Nutt
Advice lens: Thomas Häntzschel
Advice lights. Karmen Tellisaar
The performance at Notafe has been made possible with support by the International Dance Programme, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Dance Programme for Dance Artists.
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