[Capdist-announce] EMPAC | Verdensteatret: And All the Questionmarks Started to Sing | 02/17+18, 8 PM

[jason steven murphy]

http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2011/spring/verdens/
PERFORMANCE
Verdensteatret: And All the Questionmarks Started to Sing
Thursday + Friday, February 17+18, 2011, 8 PM
Studio 1 – Goodman
$15/10/5

A hybrid performance of moving image, animation, sound, and kinetic sculpture, creating an ever-changing composition driven by an abiding sense of wonder



A delicate, room-sized machine of intricate kinetic sculptures is assembled from flotsam, bicycle wheels, and old glass objects held in tiny robot arms. Actors who double as instrumentalists set in motion a chain reaction of dreamlike shifts between macro and micro perspectives. And All the Questionmarks Started to Sing crosses between concert, sculptural installation, and performance. In a landscape under constant transformation, light, shadow, sound, puppetry, and object theater merge to form a mesmerizing constellation of associations. Bringing artists of different backgrounds together, the work shows Verdensteatret's fascination with all kinds of animation—the strange and miraculous activity of breathing life into dead objects, stiff figures, and frozen images.

The project is supported by Arts Council Norway, Office for Contemporary Art Norway, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Fond for Lyd og Bilde. Verdensteatret is supported by Arts Council Norway.

+ A preview clip: http://vimeo.com/18347791
+ More information on the piece: http://www.verdensteatret.com/VT_info_juni_2010.html

Based in Oslo, Norway, Verdensteatret’s artists use a collaborative process to combine different artistic disciplines into projects that bridge the gap between artistic borders. They are known for building innovative and exquisite links between seemingly incompatible technologies and materials. Their experimental use of audiovisual technology in close dialogue with more traditional and historic tools of artistic expression results in complex art works and musical compositions.

Verdensteatret is a self-proclaimed ”telling orchestra” that performs compositions in the “movable room genre,” meaning that the room itself breathes with a kind of animation. Established notions of form or style do not apply to these peculiarly captivating works of art. Verdensteatret’s works have been presented in galleries, contemporary music festivals, and theaters around the world. www.verdensteatret.com

Tickets are required for this event and available through the EMPAC box office for $15 general admission; $10 for students, seniors, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute faculty and staff; or $5 for Rensselaer students.

Parking for this event is available in the Rensselaer parking lot on College Avenue. 

Evelyn’s Café will be open before the performances at 7 PM for food and beverage, as well as after the performances.

Additional event information can be found on the EMPAC website: http://www.empac.rpi.edu/. 

Questions? Call the EMPAC Box Office: 518.276.3921.
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