Leaving a mark within a space

The leaf image I took while going into town after college one day. It caught my eye because several fallen leaves along the conctrete were framed by their moisture seeping out while they becan to decay. It was interesting because when the leaf possibly blows away or eventually disintergrates, it will leave a mark within the space that it lay. The moisture mark is a memory almost for the area that the leaf  occupied within that space.

Figure 1: Fallen leaf surrounded by its moisture seeping out from it. 

 

These images of the flower and of the dates twig (above and below) are my experiments, inspired from what I saw(top off page, Figure 1) with the leaf and moisture rings. They are done bleach on neutral and coloured paper. I wanted to get that effect of the moisture seeping out but to leave a permanent mark. It creates an organic mark on the page. The viewer could not be sure what lay within that space. Its quite mysterious in that sense. 

Apparition - Klaus Obermaier & Ars Electronica Futurelab

 

Apparition - Klaus Obermaier & Ars Electronica Futurelab
The first three minutes of this video is quite interesting how it captures the movement of the dancers in the space. We see their interaction with the space from the energy of the movments using computer vision, IR-cam and light.

Exploring (litrally) spaces through dance

Video Experiments

 

(Exploration video) A combination of short video clips in several different locations.

 

(Exploartion Video part 6) A short video clip edited upside doen to create a different effect and change the viewer's focus.

 

 

 

(Snapshot of Exploartion vid pt 8) Interesting shapes and lines created through dance, based on the architecture.

 

(Snapshot of Exploration video pt 8) Another unusual curvlinear shape

 

Spacial Awareness



West Side Highway

Dane Shitagi photography ( Ballerina Project)

A dancers interation with a space.

At first, I focused on the idea of movement within a space, particularly by ballet dancers body movement and how it changes the space.

While researching, I had read an interesting article called 'Measuring Space' by Maribruna Fabrizi and Fosco Lucarelli. It was basically about the close relation between dance and architecture. What I found interesting is how we commonly think and look at architecture for it's shape and how it impacts our space but we don't necessarily consider the shapes the human form create within a space, especially a dancer's.  

'Is space static or it it produced by movement?'

I found this question intriguing and therefore, I wanted to investigate it further by producing a video of myself dancing (roughly!) within an open space and challenging the idea of spatial awareness. I did a number of videos, keeping to the same dance routine but changing the space.

I concluded that as a dancer, the space around you
manipulates the way you move. You fold your body forward and down when their is a low ceiling and choregraphy(imagination behind the action) has to be changed to suit the space.

When speaking to the tutors, my work and research was starting to portray more of a focus on movement and not on the space. So from that, I tried to manipulate the way the videos or images of the dancer and space are viewed. It did in some way show more focus on shape within the space.But it is something I am currently still working on....

A video called Ballerina project 'Winter Repose' during a photoshoot by Dane Shitagi. http://vimeo.com/22530604.

Manipulating the viewing of 'West Side Highway'

Dane Shitagi photography ( Ballerina Project)