scratching surfaces_have you ever almost drowned
Scratching Surfaces is the name of the one night event, a production of the Fall 2014 internship programme at the Danish studio for experimental art, Atelier Hotel Pro Forma which took place on 3rd of October, 2014. The project included several video installations, static art pieces, real time mechanical contraptions and a performance. Through all pieces, a general theme was drawn from a previous research at the atelier. Copenhagen Cable Surfing Park was the subject of the research, throughout which several different currents of inspiration were cultivated. Three particularly similar thought processes of artists Ingjerd H. Nergaard, Nanna M. Madsen and Luka Pavelka led to the conception of producing a performance, synchronizing three impressions into one piece. The performance consisted of one narrative, one text consisting of sentences from multiple interviews with different people, as answers to the question “Have you ever almost drowned?”, which was later the opener for performance. A video projection of the reflection of a human figure in the water was a second element, in close cooperation with two performers: One holding and controlling the projection, and the other being projected with the video. The 8 minute long performance was accompanied by a live sound scape performance by Tobias Lukassen.
Leave a Reply