Kurt Schwitters’ Ursonate – Klaus Obermaier & Ars Electronica Futurelab, 2015
An audiovisual performance project by Klaus Obermaier, Christopher Lindinger and Ars Electronica Futurelab, featuring Barbara Vuzem.
Opening performance of Sound:Frame Festival 2015 – Festival for audiovisual expressions
MAK Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna / Austria.
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URSONATE is part of HEAVY-HEADED / DADA-MINDED, a playful eccentric combination of real-time generated content, live manipulated sounds and dadaistic performance interventions:
Kurt Schwitters’ famous sound poem Ursonate (1923-32) gets transformed into an interactive dance performance. The audience can co-create the audiovisual environment by means of smartphones but also through bodily actions, or enter a walk-in tracking box to leave their virtualized heads as visual material.
Thereby Heavy-Headed / Dada-Minded not only lifts the boundaries between audience space and stage, but also blurs the traditional timeline of showtime and curtain call.
artistic direction, choreography and sound: Klaus Obermaier
performance: Barbara Vuzem
scientific direction: Christopher Lindinger
dramaturgy, text and research: Martina Mara
software development: Roland Aigner
technical direction: Roland Haring
video: Veronika Pauser and Claudia Schnugg
Part of the research project (St)Age of Participation,
supported by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, PEEK program, AR111
Interactive Performance – Audiovisual Dance
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