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SEAM PRESENTATIONS/SCREENINGS

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Screenings
19 SEPTEMBER 6PM
LOCATION: Critical Path, Rushcutters Bay

Bert Bongers - Traversing Spaces Video walk 20min (outside)
Sam James - Vivaria Installation 25 min (hall)
6–6.30PM

Nikki Heywood, Heidrun Lohr -Falling screening 12 min (hall)
The Physical TV Company -Entanglement Theory screening 10 min (hall)
Gretel Taylor -Still LandingPerformance 20 min (hall)
6.30–7.20PM

Paul Gazzola Street- Walks Series Installation 60 min (hall)
7.30–9.30PM

Brad Miller Augment_me (side room)

Margie Medlin, Gerald Thompson and Bianca Martin - Motion control robot camera demonstration (corner room)

Environmental Projections
Andrea Keiz- AARE
Aare is made and meant as a video installation. It is shot close to a river named Aare, in Bern Switzerland.
7.20–7.45PM

Falling
In a stark white, empty city apartment a lone woman falls, and falls again and again... She moves through space and time. She struggles against gravity. She lies motionless. She stares at ceiling, floor and walls. She gasps for air, she grasps for life. She strains to move, to ascend. Day passes, night descends. Outside, the clouds move fast across the sky. This is a brief synopsis of a video animation consisting of approx. 3.400 still photographic images.

It is a collaboration between dancer/performer Nikki Heywood and photographer Heidrun Lohr based on the experience of Nikki's mother, who had several falls in her apartment. Unnoticed by anyone in the building, she spent endless hours on the floor unable to get up, until she was found by her daughter. The dissection of a continuous flow of movement through this same, now bare apartment, into a multitude of photographic moments - the still image - and the re-assemblage of these fragments of motion into an animation, gives us the possibility to explore the passing of time and the dynamics of a body literally collapsing inside and against an architectural space, from a different and curious angle.

Inhabiting and responding to the bare space evoked memories and fleeting ghosts for the dancer, which were witnessed and captured by the permeable lens of the photographer in an intimate performance, shifting an experience of trauma to one of creative curiosity and transcendence, reshaping the space and our perception.

Work by Nikki Heywood and Heidrun Lohr

Entanglement Theory
Entanglement Theory is a research project into dance, screen and mixed realities. It began with the question: what ideas, images or stories does a mix of Second Life and Real Life dancing ask for? Practical research by Karen Pearlman and Richard James Allen of Physical TV and Gary Hayes of MUVEDesign began at Critical Path in January 2009 with a range of processes for the mix of SL and RL being tested through improvisation and the development of intermedia choreographic ideas.

Fragments of that material were then developed by Richard and Karen into a live work and a screen work which propose the hypothesis that a mash-up of Vedic spiritual philosophical ideas of multiple states of consciousness, multiple forms of body, and multi-dimensional realities and the elemental beings that inhabit them, along with science fiction-like theories of quantum particle entanglement, can be explored with this mix of media. At the SEAM Conference, Karen and Richard will present the screen work hypothesis, and discuss the research processes and the kinds of knowledge they threw into play.

Research by Karen Pearlman, Richard James Allen and Gary Hayes
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