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Bodymix A small stage, a video projection. On stage, the performer holds a gadget with a small screen that she moves very slowly over her body stopping at some places. On the screen, we see the same body naked, as if it were a gadget that could see through clothing. The image is simultaneously projected on a large screen. The performance is silent at the beginning with layers of sound added progressively. At a given point in time, after having "travelled" the bodies of some members of the audience, the performer leaves the hall. The audience is left with a screen that continues to project the increasingly magnified image of this journey. intent Bodymix uses the video medium as the means for a journey-illusion, for a dis-location. The live - recorded interplay (a video transmitted live or pre-recorded) weaves a double dialogue between space/time and reality/fiction. We are not sure that we are watching a live transmission, but we would like it to be one. The double image - projected on the big and small screens - forces the audience look from one to the other creating a change in focus that destabilises perception. The presence disappears; the body becomes a vehicle for images and the image a vehicle of mirages. The illusion is maintained by the public who allow themselves to be taken in. |