mortal engine – chunky move

 

 

 
Mortal engine was for me not only an inspiration it was the reason why I want to explore the new/digital media. The first time I saw this video I was fascinated, magnetized, breathless. This performance touches me emotionally and tells me stories without one word.

Chunky move, the producing company of Mortal Engine, describes their concept as “a dance-video-music-laser performance using movement and sound responsive projections…” It sounds like a overload of visual impressions or like a technical spectacle. However, all different media together are telling the story. Each one has its meaning, each one supports the others, together they build an amazing work. The artwork is concrete enough to encourage the storyline but also abstract enough to keep space for the dancers’ expression and everybody’s own vision. With this work Chunky move reached and inspired an audience which would usually never get into dancing performances. The visuals and the sound supported the dancing and put the idea and the core across.

The basis of this performance is the interactive system of Frieder Weiss, a German “engineer in arts”. He is working for over twenty years now in the field of real-time computing and interactive computer systems in performance art. His system allows that dancer – projection – laser and sound can communicate without delay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbjOMualLVs
www.chunkymove.com

CREATIVE TEAM

DIRECTION AND CHOREOGRAPHY Gideon Obarzanek
INTERACTIVE SYSTEM DESIGN Frieder Weiss
LASER AND SOUND ARTIST Robin Fox
COMPOSER Ben Frost
COSTUME DESIGNER Paula Levis
LIGHTING DESIGNER Damien Cooper
SET DESIGN Richard Dinnen and Gideon Obarzanek
MULTIMEDIA ENGINEER Nick Roux