WEEK 7_ "Archeography".

ARCHEOGRAPHY IV

Live Architecture Network with Biba Bell

performative installation produced in conjunction with Movement Research Festival 2009: ROLL CALL. The exhibition features new works of architecture and performance conceived collaboratively by Live Architecture Network and choreographer Biba Bell.

Constructed of 1,000 feet of elastic and fixed to the gallery walls through digitally fabricated tracks, the installation creates undulating planes for observation and movement. Both the audience and choreographer, Biba Bell of URISOV, will navigate this soft-scape terrain

The investigation presumes that precepts of movement may act authoritatively upon architecture and, conversely, that architecture may operate within a logic of performance.

PROJECT STATEMENT:

Historically there are two basic architectural approaches to dance as an event; the ‘object’ and the ‘box’. The object is created based on the performers’ needs and the box arranges performers and spectators within a space. Examples of these would be a Performance Set (object) and a Stage/Auditorium (box). In each of these a live discourse between the Architect and Choreographer is absent. The Architect is subservient to the ‘event’ in both cases, and locked in a displaced dialogue.

Architects should forever remain bewildered by a Choreographer’s spatial expertise.

Rhythm, movement, and composition all have a place within Architecture, yet long for the temporal qualities of dance. By involving Dancers, Choreographers, Architects, and students in this composite process, we were able to develop relational data that is crucial for any parametric design. Archeography IV utilized parameter based logic as a means to actively respond to the dynamic contextual influences inherent in any dance performance. Our installation is ephemeral in nature, but momentarily proposes an exchange where uninhibited creative movement and architectural continuity mark a departure from our world of monotony and habit.

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