2022, audiovisual installation
site-specific
music by Noémi Büchi (CH), collaboration with Michel Häberli (CH)
disco balls, moving head lights, haze, spatial mapping, custom software
_Pitch
The installation creates an inverted dance floor, on which the technical apparatus becomes the performing body of the space. The piece is composed of a cluster of dozens of mirror balls and many highly focused light sources (moving heads). A choreography of elusive movement is created by the light beams and its manifold reflections and refractions, fleeting but still seemingly tangible. Thanks to a precise spacial mapping of the positions of all the devices and objects involved, an entangled interplay develops in between them.
The installation reflects the peculiar condition of our contemporary society, where every interaction – after all – is made through the physical properties on which our digital machines are based. The immersive scenography of the piece, working extensively with optical effects, pinpoints at this particular dependence.
_Operating principle
The lights and disco balls are spatially mapped and are controlled by a 3d engine, creating a sequence of different scenes. The music and spatial control influence each other in the real space, creating a entangled generative system between the real and the virtual.
_Exhibitions
08/2022 Lethargy Festival – Zürich (CH)
_Project credits
<> Concept, development, scenography: Lukas Truniger
<> Music: Noémi Büchi
<> Concept, scenography: Michel Häberli
_Support
+ Lethargy Festival
The piece can be shown indoors or adapted for outdoor spaces.
