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.
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.
