Night Flying Project

How can an image ever be understood if it is what calls us to imagine? 

(George Didi Huberman ‘Confronting images’)

The project is to project.

In a 3D canvas images perform for (not only) a human gaze that imagines itself as an audience. The materiality of these images shapes, looks out, elaborates and confuses itself until something unfolds in front of our all eyes.

 ‘Night Flying Project’ can be understood as a staged research where moving bodies try to understand themselves as images, that are both object and subject of a constant observation. Dealing with the condition of being already discovered, they become never trusting, always desiring, longing bodies, the ones that are producing, waiting, waiting and still producing at the same time, as much as they are already produced under the external gaze. Can these images see beyond what we assume to see in them and can they give us a glimpse of what this might be?

We demand the audience to participate: participatory watching, observing, seeing as an activity, a meeting with an individual but also with a material.

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Credits

Choreography: Toni Steffens

Performance:  Ana van Tendeloo, Timon de Ridder, Pilvi Kuronen

Advice: Michele Rizzo, Ivan Mijacevic

Music: New Order, Depeche Mode, Real life, A-ha

Set desing: Toni Steffens

Light advice: Wout Panis, Martin Kiffarnik

Thanks to: Lisa Skwirblies, Bruno Listopad, SNDO3, Haraldur Prastarson, Igor Dobricic

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Photo credit: Nellie de Boer

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                                                          ( Pilvi Kuronen)