Mercúrio
AV Performance
Duration: 25 min.
Sunday, 26 May 2013 | 18:17 > 18:42 2013-05-26T18:17:00.000Z | Garden
The collective performs the Mercúrio performance to the camera and broadcasts it in real time straight to the screens and, if possible, through the internet to a broad worldwide view.
This work is a sensorial experience with music, projections, costume changes, takes, webcam, internet, Butoh, interactivity, stream, focus, light and live sensuality, in an unique presentation, the the big star is intergalactic messenger Mercúrio played by Lourdes Maria aka Luciano Rocha, light & camera by leobug and multimedia documenting by Nicholas Frota.
A live cinema series. At each new space we show Mercúrio will be a "new episode", never repeated, evolving, storyline, developing and every past episodes are saved for future visualization on YouTube and Vimeo. We will be seeing and hearing the viewers as well, wherever they are, and having subtle interaction being part of the scenes.
This work is a sensorial experience with music, projections, costume changes, takes, webcam, internet, Butoh, interactivity, stream, focus, light and live sensuality, in an unique presentation, the the big star is intergalactic messenger Mercúrio played by Lourdes Maria aka Luciano Rocha, light & camera by leobug and multimedia documenting by Nicholas Frota.
A live cinema series. At each new space we show Mercúrio will be a "new episode", never repeated, evolving, storyline, developing and every past episodes are saved for future visualization on YouTube and Vimeo. We will be seeing and hearing the viewers as well, wherever they are, and having subtle interaction being part of the scenes.
Author
- The Hyenas Collective, featuring Leo Teixeira and Luciano Rocha – always with an open door for guests – seeks to investigate works which exist exclusively in live environments, demonstrating narrative thrust and experimentation; projects which are constantly at odds with the perceptive experience and the act of performance. The collective studies the inherent genre tension in contemporary art: body image, sexual identity disassociated from LGBT stereotypes, issues dealing with ritualistic religion and the language of video/projections as a tool for...