VIVISECTOR
Intervention in the Sweating Body
Klaus Obermaier / Chris Haring
The dancer changes the color of his skin,
bodies duplicate themselves, dissolve
and mutate into negative matter.
Real metamorphoses :// Inhuman speed-terror ://
Virtual transformation of matter :// Dematerialization of the body
Vivisector breaks the linearity of movement and in doing so shows the
absurdity
of momentum.
To what extent does the quality of movement of the virtual world influence
real
sequences of human movement?
Will the real world of the 21st century assume via nanotechnology attributes
of the
virtual world? Are there still significant differences between a body
that is made of
synthetic material and warmed artificially and the deep glow of trillions
of living cells?
Vivisector investigates and transcends physical boundaries by means of
videotechnological
expansion, whereby it considers body language, dynamics, speed
and physical presence from new choreographic aspects:
- Dissolution/granulation and temporal reordering of movement sequences
- Simultaneously experiencing virtual and real situations
- Repeal of physical stasis
- Calling individual existence into question through virtual linkage
of genetic material
of diverse origins - Deconstruction of the body
- Interventions into organic structures via video technology
- Virtual suppleness as a distillate of physical permeability
Based on the video-technological concept of the moving body-projection
that made
D.A.V.E. an international hit, VIVISECTOR now goes one step further: the
exclusive
concentration on video light and video projection produces a new stage
aesthetic in
which light, body, video and acoustic space form an unprecedented unity.
Translated from the German by Mel Greenwald