Protozoa

produced by sonal sinor and u2p050
2022

Six short videos mixing performing and digital arts compose Protozoa. More than 23 European artists participated : a real living machine ! 

For a year, the performers took part in the project without seing or talking to each other. They met each other through these living, sound and digital arts. The primary intention is to create a new dance. The six films' series is the track.  The aim is to mix the subject, the object and the medium : the machines are no longer alongside but with the bodies. 

In-situ experience
Online experience
Video projector
Suitable for all audiences
from 30 to 35 minute(s)
Without dialogue
Update : 19/02/2024
Protozoa at the 6b - Nuit Blanche 2021
Ricardo Serrao Mendes AI for Protozoa (Sonal Sinor / u2p050)
Protozoa Poster (Lucas Mateluna)
Caroline Lou Pineau and Mulunesh for Protozoa (u2p050 - sonal sinor)
Mulunesh and AI for Protozoa (u2p050 - sonal sinor)
Elise Roy for Protozoa (u2p050 - sonal sinor)
Thomas Gréaux AI for Protozoa (u2p050 - sonal sinor)
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Dancers and musicians produced material that was shaped, constructed and deconstructed, played for the camera and modified again. The Protozoa creation was a reflective space. How can the living body and the sensation of its movements be transcribed into the image in the most direct and intense way ? How can we establish a relationship between dance and digital ? How can this relationship create new potentialities, new modes of existence ? The audiovisual projection combines all the dimensions that have animated these thoughts.

The six Protozoa films have no name, no credits, no author. They are a serial audiovisual proposal of a collective creative work.

Each film is a singular experimentation field ; in each of them a dance (flamenco, Krump, dance theatre ...), a sound synthesis, a new work of movement and a visual recording process have been developed. With each viewing, a new arrangement of material can be detected : a choreographic universe associated with a musical type, the real with the virtual, sound recordings of dancing bodies integrated into each piece of music (heartbeats, footsteps, breath, friction). The whole forms a unique echo.

For each film, the digital intervention was worked in symbiosis with the body and sound material that faced it. To discover the six Protozoa films is to experience the possible variations of digital on fabrics and film. It is giving a chance for an allied, poetic and organic artificial intelligence : an opening onto the computational world in relation to movements.

You perceive the immersed part, the dialogues between the bodies, the materials, the sounds and the machines. A sensory vision that gives birth to the Protozoa's bio-machinic universe. Living balls, legs inhabited by digital spirits, exchange of bodies. It is an anarchic experiment. To discover again the beauty of the living - machines, materials, spaces, bodies - in a chaotic harmony. 

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In-situ experience
Online experience
Experience
Duration
From 30 to 35 minute(s)
Audience
Categories
Suitable for all audiences
Accessibility
Suitable for visitors with developmental and learning disabilities, Suitable for people with reduced mobility
Prices
Languages
Original language
Without dialogue
Dubbing
Subtitles
Team
Interpreter
yes
Public outreach
no
Technician
yes
Material
Equipment
Video projector
Minimum space required
A partir de 20 m 2
Internet connection
Not required to broadcast the artwork
Awards
Programming
ISEA 2023 Paris (France), 2023
NOVTEC LIMA (Peru), 2022
PROJECTION À L'EP7 Paris (France), 2022
NUIT BLANCHE Paris (France), 2021
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Direction
S
Artistic direction
Sonal Sinor
Direction
u2p050
Direction
sonal sinor
Other
u2p050
Other
sonal sinor
Production-distribution
Production
sonal sinor
Production
u2p050
u
Broadcasting
u2p050
 
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