INTIMACY
Across Visceral and Digital Performance

Programme of Performances

• 6 -7 December: Urban Workshop
  
  
• Throughout 7-9 December
  • Story Surgery by Lisa Alexander
    
  • A Bedtime Story by Susana Mendes Silva (Portugal /UK)
  • Only a Phone Call Away by Bernadette Louise (UK)
  • Hearten by Chris Dugrenier (UK)
    
    
• Friday 7 December
  • Seminars
    • THE TIME IT TAKES TO TRUE
    • AT RISK
  • Workshops
    • BODIES OF COLOUR
    • INTIMATE DETAILS ONLY
  • Performances
    • Home London
    • Held by Adrian Howells (UK)
    • Hot Soak by Helena Goldwater (UK)
    • Goldsmiths Launch
    • Wine Gums 2.0 (Love Hearts) by Joe Stevens (UK)
    • Eudaimonia – A performed installation by Blind Ditch (UK /Germany)
    • Portrait of the Artist as a Life Model by Ernesto Sarezale (UK)
    • OneSmallStep: a Myspace LuvStory by Mark Cooley (UK)
    • DTN3 Belonging by Avatar Body Collision
    • tranSfera by SUKA OFF (Poland)
    • I Want to Suck Your Bones by Léonore Easton and Boris Hoogeveen (UK /Switzerland)
    • The Voice by Nicolas Maigret & Nicolas Montgremont (France)
    • Four Images by Adam Overton (USA)
    • From Anger to Sadness by Frank Millward (UK)
    • 13 Volts and 1 Carrot by Eva Sjuve (UK)
    • WebAffairs by Chantal Zakari (USA/ Turkey)
    • Concrete Corps by Atau Tanaka (Japan/ UK)

• Saturday 8 December
  • INTIMACY SHOW & TELL MARATHON
  • Seminars
    • PERFORMANCE AND PORNOGRAPHY
    • (DIS)EMBODIMENT
  • Workshops
    • INTIMACY AND RECORDED PRESENCE
    • AVATAR PASTE AND CODE SOUP IN FIRST AND SECOND LIFE
  • Performances
    • The 4th Project by Fran Cottell (UK)
    • Post-workshop Performance by Pierre Bongiovanni, Camille Renarhd, and Gaël Guyon (France / Canada)
    • Goldilocks Peep Show by Leena Kela (Finland)
    • The Seal of Confession: A One to One Encounter in a Confessional by Martina Von Holn (UK)
    • Tea and Sympathy by Michelle Browne (UK)
    • Wednesday Wednesday by Mary Oliver (UK)
    • How to Wax by Rachelle Beaudoin (USA)
    • Spank by Caroline Smith (UK)
    • Intimacy as Event by Lauren Goode (UK)
    • MOM – Marks of Motherlands by Helena Walsh (UK /Ireland)
    • Between One and Another: 'Melting Point' by Sam Rose (UK)
    • This is How it Was by Chris Johnston (UK)
    • Fee for Service by Jess Dobkin (Canada)
    • Microdances: An Intimate Post-post-porn Performance by Jaime del Val (Spain)
    • Suna No Onna by Dans Sans Joux (Japan /Germany /UK)
      World Première: SUNA NO ONNA (Woman of the Dunes)
      
      
• Sunday 9 December
  • INTIMACY SYMPOSIUM

Thursday 6 & Friday 7 December: Urban Workshop

What's the city like?
There are fucking cars, noises, people, posh people, poor people, fat people, huge people, black people, giants, Spanish, white people , Asian people, drugs, cops, flowers, children, streets, junk, supermarkets, poets, cranes, mysteries, mafia, bodies, souls, activity, traffic, stories to be made up...

What's life about?
Breathing, fast moves, stops an' goes, bruises, songs, love, traitors, heroes, parents, children, mourning, escapes, brawls, fights, battles... And sometimes really amazing moments of ecstatic delirium when one's licking the great blue sky with his tongue and when this same blue sky is becoming sweet and sour but isn't disgusting...

What's love about?
Looks, choreographies, jumps, strangers, dreams, nightmares, delights, warmth
and frost, secret messages, expectations, dates, lights, illicit Christmas,
pavements, merry-go-rounds, banana splits...

What's the world about?
It's about the city, life and love.
It's dancing, singing and screaming, when days and nights are becoming one.
It's like a Black Chinese singing in Italian while dancing rumba with a Polish Jew born in Zanzibar from a Guatemalan father and a mother from Dogon.

This workshop is just like that.
A chaos of emotions, perceptions, pulses, images and cries.

With Pierre Bongiovanni, Film maker and masseur (France), Camille Renarhd, choregrapher and dreamer (Canada), and Gaël Guyon photographer and Shaman (France).

To join the workshop email Owen: performintimacy (at) googlemail (dot) com The workshop will take place in and around public spaces of Southeast London. FREE. LIMITED CAPACITY. BOOKING ESSENTIAL.

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Throughout 7-9 December

A Bedtime Story by Susana Mendes Silva (Portugal /UK)
The artist will tell a bedtime story to everyone who would like to hear one.
Participants are asked to send an e-mail to arslonga@netcabo.pt or call 07964291286 to schedule the date and the time you would like to hear your story. You can choose if the story is told to you in English or Portuguese and you must have Skype (or arrange to have it before your story). Maximum time: 30 minutes.
From 10pm each night of 7, 8, 9 December

Only a Phone Call Away by Bernadette Louise (UK)
Featuring Lydia Lunch, Nicole Blackman, Geordie Blake, Louis Campbell and Big Bren.
Technical Engineer: Ant Ram.
How many times have you answered your telephone only to realise you've been accidentally phoned by a friend while their mobile phone was in their pocket? Did you listen or hang up? What did you hear that you weren't meant to know? And did you ever tell them?
Based on this idea, Bernadette Louise explores audio voyeurism giving you a sense of cinematic presence within the theatrical backdrop of the home environment, a place where one lives out your darkest, emotional, physical, memorable, and meaningful moments, seemingly behind closed doors. Only a Phone Call Away brings performance art and poetry direct to your telephone, simply by calling a number. Will you wrestle with your conscience and eavesdrop, into the private lives of the unknowing?
www.myspace.com/onlyaphonecallaway
Funded by Arts Council England & Fierce Festival 2007.
Throughout 7, 8, 9 December. Call: 02030511640 (charged at local rate for central London callers and free for mobile phone "free minutes") or 08458673853 (charged at local rate from anywhere in the UK)

Hearten by Chris Dugrenier (UK)
Imagine being invited for a heart to heart,
Your ear resting gently on my soft cotton shirt, in the public gaze,
Are you comfortable?
Imagine in such proximity,
Hearing, amongst ripples of breathing, strange murmurs,
Will you stay? … long?
Hearten is a durational one-to-one performance and sound piece that explores intimacy in public spaces.
Hearten will take place throughout Intimacy across Goldsmiths and Albany venues.

Story Surgery by Lisa Alexander
Lisa Alexander invites you to partake of a story surgery: by interview on foot she will enact a visceral encounter of your's and her memory.
This will follow the sharing of a personal memento and a short projective test. The surgery will last for 10 minutes. Lisa will approach you for a surgery or you are welcome to approach her: she will be roving around Goldsmiths and the Albany throughout Intimacy re-reading letters and looking through old photos. The encounters will be sound-recorded and treated as anonymous. At the end of each day they will be added to a series of previous story
surgeries, which can be witnessed via headphones as a discreet sound work: details given on entering Intimacy. See www.franko-b-mentoring.co.uk

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Friday 7 December

Home London
1A Flodden Rd. SE5 9LL Camberwell London http://www.homeliveart.com
To book call 07957565336 or email: laura@homeliveart.com

Held by Adrian Howells (UK)
In the first piece as himself and not his alter-ego Adrienne, Adrian
Howells now asks us to get more intimate with him than ever before!
'Held' is a one-on-one performance that takes place across 3 domestic spaces: first in a kitchen where he offers a hand as well as tea and biscuits, then the lounge where he puts his arm around you as you watch TV or listen to music and finally the bedroom where he 'spoons' into you as you lie together for 30 minutes. Both the participant and Adrian remain fully clothed throughout.
Evoking both the fleeting comfort of one-night stands and the sometimes stifling atmosphere of long-term relationships, 'Held' encourages us to both think about how much the simple act of touching can say.
Home London, Slots for 1h one-to-one performances from 10am to 15:30. Booking essential. Tickets: £8, concessions £5

Hot Soak by Helena Goldwater (UK)
Hot Soak is a one-to-one performance in a bathroom where the audience become co-creators of the work through material and physical exchange. Without them the work cannot exist. Goldwater is engaged in the parallel practices of painting and performance art. Both, she suggests, seek to destabilise the viewer's relationship to intimacy.
Hot Soak, Slots for 5mins performances on the hour at 4pm & 5pm.
Booking essential. To book email Laura: laura@homeliveart.com

Goldsmiths, 6:30pm-11pm – Launch
Join us for a glass of wine at the Goldsmiths Ben Pimlott Foyer. Nudity after 10pm.
Photography by Rei Dishon and Fiona Annis

Wine Gums 2.0 (Love Hearts) by Joe Stevens (UK)
A single packet of Love Hearts contains 27 individual sweets. The artist will use 25 packets in total for this work, meaning he will use 675 love hearts in total.
Regulation > colour sequence > changing situation > assemblage
The work will represent the above algorithm through live performance practice. Starting from the middle of the space, the artist will follow this algorithm as dictated by the random arrangement of colours that exist within each packet of Love Hearts.
Goldsmiths Ben Pimlott Foyer, from 6:30pm

Eudaimonia – A performed installation by Blind Ditch (UK /Germany)
Eudaimonia is enabled by a naked male and female performer in a constantly shifting system of interaction between body, electroacoustic feedback, video, text projection and tone recognition software. With repetition and slow progression, the performers work off a choreographed score, sourcing deep from the well of imagery that lies at the foundations of western culture.
Holding long and difficult positions with slow transitional movement the piece takes on the form of a prayer or meditation. Tension generated through the physical effort translates into an atmosphere of contained energy amplified by the extended nervous system of the technological environment.
Goldsmiths Studio 3, 6:30pm till 7:30pm. Contains nudity.

Portrait of the Artist as a Life Model by Ernesto Sarezale (UK)
A durational live multimedia installation and performance, where the artist is a poet, a scriptwriter, a performer, a video director and, indeed, a nude life model for a (faceless) visual artist who's trapped in a TV set. The model/artist is posing in the present for an artist who is not there (and actually drew him in the past). The human is, as a matter of fact, posing for the machine.
The intention is to explore issues of temporality, reality, memory and the role technology plays in our every day life and in the way we perceive ourselves and our bodies.
Goldsmiths Ben Pimlott Foyer, from 10pm. Contains nudity.

OneSmallStep: a Myspace LuvStory by Mark Cooley (UK)
An unfolding automated jam - a conscious sampling and randomized regurgitation of media artefacts common to "social networking" sites such as MySpace.com. OneSmallStep provides a context for the exploration of identity, desire, fantasy and fetish in an eternally habitual loop of voyeuristic consumption, spectacular regurgitation, virtual intimacy and identity production/consumption.
Goldsmiths Ben Pimlott Seminar Rooms, Net-art installation

DTN3 Belonging by Avatar Body Collision
Daria is stuck. She was supposed to be en route from the insular world of her village and the tatters of her personal life. She was supposed to be following those brave, glamorous heroines from the 1950s movies of her childhood - stepping out across borders to a new life in the west.
But Daria is stuck. Unable to articulate any sense of 'home', nor comforted by the sentimental objects she has packed in her suitcase, her journey has been waylaid in the worst possible way.
With a thematic that addresses power, ownership and modern slavery, Belonging by Avatar Body Collision
Goldsmiths Ben Pimlott Seminar Rooms, 7pm till 7:30pm

Official Opening of INTIMACY
By Prof. Janis Jefferies, Gerald Lidstone (Goldsmiths) and Prof. Lizbeth Goodman (UEL)
Ben Pimott Foyer, 7:40pm till 7:55pm

tranSfera by SUKA OFF (Poland)
The cyborg fantasizes about and ritualizes death and sex: As cy is electronic and human, many deaths are experienced, mediated, communicated and mythologised. (From Hans Scheirl's summarized+updated cyborg manifesto 1998)
The intent of tranSfera is to search and extend the forms of communication on the physiological level including the physicality of machines. It is an attempt to define the "third sex" by blurring the individual attributes / sexual codes arrogated to the male and female by the western civilization. SUKA OFF is a Poland based artistic group existing since 1995. tranSfera is a mixture of performance, video art and sound installation.
Goldsmiths George Wood Theatre, 8pm till 9pm. Contains nudity.

I Want to Suck Your Bones by Léonore Easton and Boris Hoogeveen (UK /Switzerland)
IWTSYB is a meeting between Rrhea Logo and Real Corpo; a meeting between words and experimental mouth sounds. IWTSYB explores the physical origin of the voice and how it is this permanent underlying feature which gives it an intimate and erotic quality. IWTSYB uses the potential of voice to produce words and sounds and it brings them to the point when they touch each other with the aim of exposing the moment when the erotic of a word meets the erotic of a sound. IWTSYB was performed April 2007 at Quorum Queen Mary University of London and will be performed in November 2007 in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Goldsmiths Studio 3, 8:30pm till 9pm

Four Images by Adam Overton (USA)
Four Images will be a guided interaction that will lead those in attendance through a series of social metaphors, or "images". Each image describes a moment of experimental, intimate proposals for communication - for instance through psychic screaming to the rhythm of one's pulse, or by peering into another's ear while feeling their blinking eyelashes, or through transmitting intention from eye to eye via tear-drop, and so on.
Ben Pimlott Seminar Rooms, 9pm till 9:40pm

From Anger to Sadness by Frank Millward (UK)

An interactive multimedia work for Soprano and laptops. Pre-recorded processed emotive utterances (sounds – nasendoscopy and spectral analysis images) are used to underscore as well as develop complementary images and sonic materials for framing the live performance.
Goldsmiths Studio 3, 9:15pm till 9:30pm

13 Volts and 1 Carrot by Eva Sjuve (UK)
An improvised interactive performance using real-time sound processing. The narrative in 13 Volts and 1 Carrot is a surreal response to cultural issues of the stranger and the local community, and the idea of a scapegoat, based on various sources, as folklore from Northern Europe, and police films from the 30's, communicated through sound and movements.
13 Volts and 1 Carrot is a performance in the intersection of sound art, performance art, interactive art, dance and live art and sculpture, which makes it unique and pioneering work of art in its genre.
Goldsmiths Studio 3, 9:45pm till 10pm

WebAffairs by Chantal Zakari (USA/ Turkey)
The book webAffairs is a four years long documentation of a performance done in a webcam community where people come to have virtual sex. The artist, Show-n-tell, tells her story of being a voyeur and eventually becoming part of this community through a series of images and actual chat text. Initially shy, she asks men to show her their rooms. She finds naked men by their computers in their office spaces, living rooms and bedrooms. She collects images of their naked bodies juxtaposed with their surrounding computer equipment. Eventually she becomes a regular within the community and makes friends. People share their personal crises with her. The main narrative, however, is told through Show-n-tell's voice. She participates in the community both as an observer and a performer. After a while she has her own virtual sex show but as a married woman she too negotiates the limits of her explorations within virtual space with her real-life partner.
This artist's book is a documentation of Show-n-tell's navigation through erotic virtual space. But like most documentaries, the material has been electronically edited and graphically redesigned to dramatically communicate her story.
Goldsmiths Ben Pimott Seminar Rooms, 10pm till 10:40pm

Concrete Corps by Atau Tanaka (Japan/ UK)
Concrete Corps is a musical concert performance for performer and bio-electrical interface as musical instrument. The instrument in question is the BioMuse, a sensor interface captures electromyogram (EMG) biosignals reflecting muscle tension. Biomedical electrodes make electrical contact with the skin, detecting electrical impulses of neurons as the brain commands voluntary muscle contraction. The BioMuse amplifies these analogue micro-voltages, performs analogue-digital conversion, and transmits them as digital information to the computer. Live sound synthesis software programmed by the composer create mappings that shape and sculpt sound parameters, filtering, granularizing, distorting sampled sounds in ways not possible with conventional interfaces. Atau Tanaka was born in Tokyo, and was raised in the U.S. He bridges the fields of media art, experimental music, and research.
Goldsmiths Studio 3, 10:30pm till 11pm

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Saturday 8 December

The 4th Project by Fran Cottell (UK)
Performance-lecture where Fran tells a fast story of the development of house installations using books of images. An intimate performance encounter, both in its enactment and in its subject-matter.
Goldsmiths Richard Hoggart Building, Loafers Café & Dining Hall Slots for 10min. Performances: 9:30am, 10am, 10:30am, 2:10pm, 2:45pm To Book email Owen: performintimacy (at) googlemail (dot) com LIMITED CAPACITY

Post-workshop Performance by Pierre Bongiovanni, Camille Renarhd, and Gaël Guyon (France / Canada)
Post-workshop performance exploring responses to the questions therein raised including What's the city like? What's life about? What's love about? What's the world about? Bongiovanni says of the workshop that it will be "A chaos of emotions, perceptions, pulses, images and cries".
The Albany Studio, 11:30am till 12:30pm

Goldilocks Peep Show by Leena Kela (Finland)
Finnish interdisciplinary artist, Leena Kela presents Goldilocks Peep Show. In the peep show Goldilocks will be performing erotic and less erotic acts, which will be different for different viewers. The acts can vary from provocative and offensive to slow and even dull.
This a pay-per-view Peep Show that costs 50p per minute.
The Albany Lime or Pineapple Room, from 12noon to 4pm

The Seal of Confession: A One to One Encounter in a Confessional by Martina Von Holn (UK)
The Seal of Confession invites one member of audience at a time to meet the performer in a confessional; the built wooden structure of the confessional booth provides the spatial grounds for the encounter. Derived of much of their visual sense the audience is lead to concentrate on their aural sensitivity. Adopting a semi-liturgical dramaturgy the performer guides the audience through a number of communicational scenarios establishing a relationship of priest and penitent which in the course of the piece undergoes reciprocally transformation. Through the separating grille the audience is allowed gazes at fragments of the performers body but never at her physical presence as an entirety.
The Albany Lime or Pineapple Room, Performance slots for 6-10min performances from 11:30am to 3pm. FREE, BOOKING REQUIRED. To book email Owen: performintimacy (at) googlemail (dot) com

Tea and Sympathy by Michelle Browne (Ireland))
The artist as hostess invites the viewer to participate in afternoon tea. The hostess seats the guests and arranges them so that they are seated opposite someone they do not know or did not arrive with. Each cup of tea will be accompanied by a small wrapped chocolate inside which are instructions on what topic to discuss with their new partner. The session lasts for approximately 20 minutes and the process is repeated.
The Albany Café, 12noon till 2pm.

How to Wax by Rachelle Beaudoin (USA)
The Webisode series is a collection of video/performance pieces in which I demonstrate ways to look "hot" in front of a live audience while making a webcam video for the YouTube audience. These instructional-style videos demonstrate the steps needed to get a spray tan and bleach your teeth, etc. The performances include awkward moments such as waiting for the spray tan to dry and waiting to remove the whitening strips. How To Wax will be the final installment of the Webisode series. In this performance, Beaudoin will demonstrate how to wax, or remove hair from the bikini area in order to achieve "hotness". Using a hot wax kit, Beaudoin will take the audience step-by-step through the action of waxing while creating a video for the YouTube audience. The process is messy, often bloody and does cause pain.
The Albany Studio, 2:30pm till 2:45pm

Spank by Caroline Smith (UK)
Research for this performance started a year ago when Smith came across Harriet Staunton, a woman who died under mysterious circumstances in south-east London. Her death in the 19th century caused such shame, councilors were forced to change the name of the street. The incident created an enduring scar in the local community: one woman Smith spoke to experienced black-outs and sleep-walking and attributes it to sleeping in the attic as a child where Harriet died – albeit a century later. Mental health, trauma and remembering informed Spank.
The Albany Studio, 4pm till 5pm

Intimacy as Event by Lauren Goode (UK)
Lauren Goode leads this durational and movement-based intervention, explored through participation in a performance-experiment. Goode seeks 32 participants for this performance-experiment followed by a chaired-discussion. The directed participative experiment involves activating a simple and meditative movement-device that requires individuals to move along in pairs, in silence and extremely slowly (so slowly that at first glance they would appear to an observer as if they were standing still). The movement-device entails directly facing each other and being in close proximity, eg over-stepping a spatial distance of say, two figures comfortably facing each other to converse. The figures will not be touching (e.g. their outlines should form silhouettes). This workshop event will involve contributions from guest artists and has been devised by Lauren Goode, artist and project director of the Live Art Garden Initiative http://www.liveartgardeninitiative.org.uk
Goldsmiths Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre and Richard Hoggart Building, Corridors, 4pm till 6pm
To book email Lauren: lauren (at) liveartgardeninitiative (dot) org (dot) uk
Please read before booking a place: Participants need to be willing and able to carry out a simple movement operation in a disciplined manner in order to realise the performance-experiment. Participants should note that it is also intended to film the performance-experiment, edit the documentation and, depending upon the results publish as moving image work online. Finally, participants should also be aware that the vicinity where the performance-experiment will be taking place in Goldsmiths will be public to any flows of college users passing along these corridor vicinities at the time.

MOM – Marks of Motherlands by Helena Walsh (UK /Ireland)
The conflict between a man and a woman, a warmonger and a healer, an incompatible couple, is mirrored by a gender conflict within the same body. Bittersweet childhood memories are recounted across a divided landscape and through troubled dreamscapes.
Loaded with the complex personal layers that inform the artist's identity and unified by the theme of impotency and fertility, the artist's "uneasy womanliness" parallels with the uneasy political history of Ireland, providing a double-barrelled history of her "Motherland". As famine and hunger strikes physically resonate again following a failure to nurture, buried realities return to haunt, highlighting that in the shadow of victorious battles lies shame, in the shadow of autonomy lies repression.
Goldsmiths George Wood Theatre, 4:15pm till 5pm

Between One and Another: 'Melting Point' by Sam Rose (UK)
Between One and Another has developed as a series of durational one to one performance encounters and interventions based upon ideas of intimacy and exchange. As a body of works, the research and development process has uncovered how the performance of intimacy can generate moments that contain risk, chance, dialogue and conversation, including feelings of control, power, closeness, vulnerability and loss. Combining autobiography with universal themes of memory, the passing of time, and feelings of loss, 'Melting Point' is a seductive, and at times a melancholic, multi-sensorial one to one performance that explores desire, the transient nature of experience, and the moment.
The Albany Café and Room, from 4:30pm
Please note that this one to one encounter is not bookable. Rose will approach her 'others' from around the Albany.

This is How it Was by Chris Johnston (UK)
With script written by Chris Johnston and pre-recorded by members of Fluxx, the improvisation company based in London with whom the work has been developed, This is How it Was involves three performers. The two principal performers are a man and a woman. They address the audience. They describe how it was, their relationship. They talk about the risks they took and the levels of intimacy they achieved. The highs and the lows, the ins and the outs. The third performer is silent. He is the abandoned party. What makes the performance unique is that none of the performers are familiar with their text. In fact they haven't even read, heard or witnessed their text prior to the performance. All their dialogue is relayed to them for the first time via the mp3 players that they carry with them. This dialogue has been pre-recorded by other performers. Similarly, the performer holding up the signs has no knowledge of what the signs say. The performers naturally have no time to consider or filter their own decisions about how they interpret this material, how they enact this material. Yet the script forces them to make some kind of decisions.
Goldsmiths George Wood Theatre, 6pm till 6:30pm

Fee for Service by Jess Dobkin (Canada)
Fee for Service, an interactive, durational performance art work offers audiences of one the use my vagina as a pencil sharpener. The performance premiered at the WARC Gallery in Toronto and has subsequently been performed at the Nieuwpoorttheater in Gent, Belgium and in Berlin, Germany, and was presented in Montreal in Spring 2007. Fee for Service explores intersecting issues around intimacy, the negotiation of social and sexual boundaries, sex work, and the myth of the Vagina Dentata.
The Albany Lime or Pineapple Room. Slots for 10min performances from 8pm. Nominal fee: £2. First come first served.

Microdances: An Intimate Post-post-porn Performance by Jaime del Val (Spain)
Microdances is a performance-installation in two parts based on the use of more than one wireless microcamera on the body. The image captured by each camera is projected onto large translucent screens in the whole space of the performance, projecting very abstract fragments of the moving body, that become like huge landscape or living
architecture. Del Val is a Spanish-based artist.
The Albany Studio, Slots for 15min performance from 8:45pm till 10:30pm. Tickets: £3. To book call The Albany Box Office: 0208 692 4446.

Suna No Onna by Dans Sans Joux (Japan /Germany /UK)
World Première: SUNA NO ONNA (Woman of the Dunes)
Dans Sans Joux has been commissioned to create a new movement-design performance for Intimacy. Suna no Onna, adapted from Hiroshi Teshigahara's mysterious 1960s cult movie, is a dance installation that merges virtual and real images of a life of existential entrapment in an inhospitable habitat. The ominous sand dunes of Teshigahara's desert are transformed into virtual realities that shape the unconscious ground where the Woman (Katsura Isobe) meets a scientist-foreigner who stumbles into her life to become a captive. The work combines dance, interactive video and animation, fashion design, and electronic music created by an ensemble of artists from diverse creative backgrounds. The integration of the various elements of this performance follows an experimental fashion design concept for the development of sensorial and interfacial garments (built with intelligent materials) which respond to movement qualities, energies and emotional gesture.
Conceived and directed by Johannes Birringer and Michèle Danjoux, the stage production features new fashion concepts by Danjoux and digital designs by a group of collaborating artists including Paul Verity Smith, Doros Polydorou, Maria Wiener, and Jonathan Hamilton. Original music is composed by Oded Ben-Tal, and the scenography is by Hsueh-Pei Wang. Lighting design by Miguel Alonso. Suna no Onna is performed by an international cast of three – Japanese dancer Katsura Isobe, British dancer Olu Taiwo, and Chinese dancer Helenna Ren.
Laban Studio Theatre, 7:30pm till 8:30pm Book at:
https://www.purchase-tickets-online.co.uk/peo22430/default.aspor
or call 020 8469 9500 Tickets: 12 GBP, concessions 8 GBP

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Photography credit: Microdances. Photography, 2005. Copyright: Jaime del Val_REVERSO