Design And Performance Lab

world premiere   "The river of no one " a choreographic performance fusing dance, music/sound and digital film & photography intermixed live on a telematic green screen stage operated by Third Space Network by DAP-LAB directed by Johannes Birringer & Michèle Danjoux featuring Zhi Xu and Dee Kathleen Egan   Saturday, March 12, 2022, 4pm GMT / 5pm CET / 11am EST. Telepresence Stage For a RECORDING OF THE LIVE MIX, GO HERE The river of no one   description "" An international collaboration created by DAP-Lab and directed by the lab directors Birringer & Danjoux, The river of no one is a a meditation on the current climate crisis, linking regions and continents in a subtle & intimate exploration of hydrocommons, a shared ecological water and plant culture that needs to be imagined as a flow in which all life, not just human life participates. Imagining rivers as belonging to everyone and no one - and being fully aware of recent floods, storms, and heat waves as extreme harbingers of climate catastrophe - is a political and aesthetic challenge, and it also counters the logic of commodification that approaches the environment as a repository of resources for profit generation. DAP-Lab aims to create a series of "drawings" in performance, both physical (in the outdoors) and digital (augmented virtual & virtual reality): immersive, ritualized, intimate movement experiences. These experiences are also soma-technical, and they denaturalise the idea of "natural" resources, drawing attention to the way that cultural meanings and economic regimes attached to water and rivers are themselves products of the socio-symbolic processes of resource-making. The project examines the performers' responses to sounds and tactile images (imagined relations) of water, river, flow, movement, liquidity - extending body (in whatever restricted, limited or possible way) to an interface between the real there, and the virtual nature drawings we shall instigate through telematic collaboration with artists in distributed locations (in the UK and the USA), VR software and physical movement ideas. We also plan to create experiments in tactile inter-action - extending the notion of illustrating/drawing into the relationship between Oculus Quest headset wearer (performer) and illustrator/guide or guardian who hold the Oculus controllers and draw, in real time & in real flow, dipping & dripping into the imaginary. The performance is considered a workshop showcase, featuring dancer/choreographer Zhi Xu, based in Bath, UK, along with London-based trans-femme artist, Dee Kathleen Egan (kat), whose work focuses on the expression of transness in modern society through a diverse range of media. The two artists, performing live from their home studios in front of green screens, collaborate with choreographer Johannes Birringer and designer Michèle Danjoux, co-directors of DAP-Lab (Design and Performance Lab). This new performance is funded by the UKRI/AHRC COVID-19 Response Project: "Collaborative Solutions for the Performing Arts: A Telepresence Stage" https://www.telepresencestage.org), organized by the University of Brighton, Research Lead: Paul Sermon. Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0). The Telepresence Stage performance workshop, funded by the UK Arts & Humanities Research Council to support online performance during Covid, is produced by the Third Space Network Performance Lab in Washington, DC. The performance ideas and design concepts are directed by Johannes Birringer and Michèle Danjoux, with choreography by Zhi Xu and Dee Kathleen Egan. Live music and sound processing by Dee Kathleen Egan. Technical Direction by Randall Packer of Third Space Network. Additional technical engineering and diection by Gregory T. Kuhn. Additional performance and dance research by Athina Bergkaoui and Iwona Wojnicka.   Screenshot photos feature Zhi Xu (dance/choreography) and Dee Kathleen Egan (music/choreography), with filmic images created by Johannes Birringer and Michèle Danjoux (c) DAP-Lab 2022     Find the event website and the bios and additional info here Third Space Network Photos: (c) dap-lab 2022   Project directors: Johannes Birringer & Michèle Danjoux Brunel University, West London