Julie Wyman takes video of Anna Azrieli for a canary torsi interactive installation coming to BRIC House (photo by Amir Denzel Hall)
BRIC House Artist Studio
647 Fulton St.
Friday, November 20, and Saturday, November 21, $10-$14, 8:00
718-683-5600
bricartsmedia.org
acanarytorsi.org
In an October 2014 twi-ny talk with Yanira Castro, the founder, director, and choreographer of a canary torsi told me in reference to a question about her relationship with the audience, “I want to create a scenario for them and to be in conversation with them and I want them to form the picture, craft their experience. Their presence dynamically changes what is occurring. That is what ‘live’ means for me. It is dynamic because of the people in the room.” We were talking about her piece Court/Garden, but we could have just as well been discussing her current work-in-progress, Performance Portrait: Live. During a November 10-21 BRIClab residency, Castro will be creating life-sized versions of durational videos made during a summer residency at Gibney Dance, in which Julie Wyman filmed company performers Anna Azrieli, Leslie Cuyjet, Peter B. Schmitz, and David Thomson frozen in individual, single gestures as if locked in a direct, mutual gaze with a spectator. There will be two public showings of the resulting interactive multichannel video installation, Performance Portrait: Live (work-in-progress), on November 20 and 21 at 8:00, featuring interaction design by company composer and pianist Stephan Moore, using a network of Kinect 2 sensors, and audience environment by Kathy Couch. Each showing will be followed by a moderated dialogue with the audience and the artists.