The Chapter House. A multimedia choreographic performance. Premiered at the Laban Theatre, London in October 2014. Funded
by Arts Council England and supported by dancedigital, Duncan Dance Research Centre, and dance-tech Berlin/Lake Studios.
- Submitting institution
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Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- Dimitriou2
- Type
- I - Performance
- Venue(s)
- Laban Theatre, London
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of first performance
- October
- Year of first performance
- 2014
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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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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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- The Chapter House is an interdisciplinary dance piece with live video documentation and an installation
by inventor of the Isadora software and co-director of Troika Ranch, Mark Coniglio. Commissioned by the Laban
Theatre its world premiere took place in October 2014. The research processes that led to the piece had the aim of unpicking notions of live documentation in performance through the use of digital media. The body is treated as both a living archive, and a site of discourse open to shifting angles of gaze and interpretation. The piece calls into question the materiality of the archive by foregrounding the ease of capturing live movement footage with available technologies. It exposes the mechanics of using digital media to record and then reconstruct live performance and leaves the decision of what remains and the order of how materials are presented, not to human judgement, but the algorithmic processing of video-making. By doing this, the work and its underpinning research processes cast into question what it means to engage with live cultural content in a mediated manner, and further provokes consideration of how attention and engagement with cultural work is changing in relation to the instant gratification experienced through technological devices. The work is situated among works of artists that use archival content and documentation as a basis for the creation of new work, such as Siobhan Davies and Arkadi Zaides, but in contrast to them, the piece stresses the mechanics of live documentation as the intersubjective exchange between action and those perceiving this action. Proof of date: https://www.artrabbit.com/events/zoi-dimitriou-the-chapter-house
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