Exploring the Dynamic Light Structure Through Performance & Installation
- Submitting institution
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Canterbury Christ Church University
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- U33.015
- Type
- I - Performance
- Venue(s)
- Sounds New Festival, Canterbury 2014. Cultural eXchanges Festival, Leicester 2016
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of first performance
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- Year of first performance
- 2014
- URL
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https://www.quarterinchjack.co.uk/research
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The Dynamic Light Structure is a term coined to describe the hybrid object of projected light and particle system which lies at the heart of this performance and installation research. The marriage of focused light and smoke for performance is nothing new; anyone who has attended a recent rock show will have been witness to sweeping beams of coloured light creating an animated collage of ephemeral substance throughout the arena. The Dynamic Light Structure is an object formed through the projection of simple graphics in a haze filled space which can be manipulated live and is flexible enough as to be useful as a scenographic reimagining of a space, or as a co-performer alongside a live body. The research examined ways in which the Dynamic Light Structure shapes the performance environment whilst developing a performative relationship with a body in the space. By analysing responses to the performance Etched, Hurst was better able to understand how the structures were able to both create a stage environment whilst also undertaking a protagonist (antagonist) role within the performance as an animated object. The installation On Slow Violence further examined the ephemeral nature of the structures and the intrigue shown by the visitors about their form. By handing control of the structures to visitors and inviting participants to explore a manipulable constructed space, individuals were able to respond and articulate how the environment made them feel and detail the experience of being present among these seemingly solid, yet utterly intangible light objects. By drawing together and examining audience response to both the performance Etched and the installation On Slow Violence, the research defined ways in which the Dynamic Light Structure could contribute to the production toolbox and expand the visual language used to impact the development process of performance and installation work. https://www.quarterinchjack.co.uk/research
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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