Seek & Hide by KAN Collective.
Live performance at the Odisha Arts Biennale, India, 25/12/2019
Seek and Hide is a continuously evolving multimedia installation performance.
Website: https://hidebecauseiwantyoutofindme.wordpress.com
Recording of the full performance in Odisha (2020): https://vimeo.com/383079300
Through the use of projectors and layered transparent fabric, the animation is duplicated in different sizes and locations; taking the film out of its flat screen mode and beginning to exist in physical space.
The dancers interacting with the digital characters break the rational barrier between illusory and physical, portraying a multiverse of simultaneous happenings and interactions. The dancers attempt to reach the digital characters by removing the fabrics one by one, reducing the layers of projection until the illusory worlds are united on a singular projection and the dancers leave the space.
Still of dancers Anna Spink and Vicky Yadav from live performance at the Odisha Biennale, 2019-2020
International Sign Language Letters, Drawn by Dominica Harrison
Project Concept:
In the modern world, the topics of high technology and future communication between people is being eagerly discussed. Constant technological progress is pushing civilisation forward, but at the same time it can be removing elements of authentic human interaction, unbiased communication and meaningful exchanges in the real world.
During the performance, the audience have an exclusive view of two separate worlds: the physical and the illusory, existing at the same moment in time. Both the dancers and animated characters use the space we build (windows, doors and fabric) to connect the two worlds together. The windows create opportunities for the physical and digital characters to peek through, to flirt with each other, to play and to communicate through sign and body language.
Seek & Hide: Film Version for Hertfordshire’s Year of Culture 2020
Seek and Hide full film for HYOC2020 (2020): https://vimeo.com/489755581
Password: KAN
Above: stills of dancers Anna Spink and Aaron Markwell from Seek & Hide film for HYOC2020
Directed by: KAN Collective
DOP: Dominica Harrison
Movement Director: Anna Spink
Choreography & Performance:
Anna Spink & Aaron Markwell
Animation by: Dominica Harrison & Kim Noce
Music: Wimperis & Ben Vale
Editor: Michael Ho
With the support from BEEE Creative team, HYOC 2020 and Arts Council England
The film version of Seek & Hide was later screened at The Norwich Fringe Festival, 2021
Below: ‘Dance to Make the World Smile’ - Screened in Hemel, and curtain raiser for Seek & Hide film for HYOC2020 commission.
Outreach Workshop with BEEE Creative and KAN Collective
Following a series of animation and dance workshop involving learning an international sign language system, choreography and frame by frame animation with BEEE Creative and KAN Collective, the participants created a contemporary dance piece ‘Dance To Make The World Smile’ that was performed live on Zoom as part of Hertfordshire Year of Culture 2020 and screened at Norwich Fringe Festival 2021.
Link to full video of ‘Dance To Make The World Smile’ can be found at: https://hidebecauseiwantyoutofindme.wordpress.com/2020/11/13/screening-in-watford-for-a-month