Superposition
Architecture Center, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna 2016
Superposition is an interdisciplinary performance which draws inspiration from tangible and intangible spaces, as well as theories regarding our perception of the worlds we inhabit. As the fabric of spacetime unfolds, it activates several areas and layers embedded in a performative architectural structure, which is animated by the human body.
The performance composes a multi-texcture spatial landscape which starts form a rigid grid and culminates to an organic elastic entity. The audience is immersed into an environment infused by live video mapping and sonic experiences.
I felt my flesh pulled off.
Stretched until every thread revealed its fibbers.
Some tore apart;
I could feel the pain and screams of each and everyone of them.
Disrobed, left naked to expose their primordial DNA.
I released my body to be pulled and pushed in the middle of strange external forces.
Ruthlessly changing its direction, its figure.
With no constrains but the geometry of my bones,
I was finally pliable, morphing.
My shape and form are no longer what they used to be.
They now follow the beatings of the heart,
the winds of the soul,
and the winding corridors of the mind.
A shape-shifter dragging the weight of my past, I keep going in present
arching my arrow to the future.
by Argyris Angeli
CREATORS
Argyris Angeli | Justyna Choli | Kyriaki Nasioula | Menglan Wu | Suh-in Park
CREDITS
Concept Development: Argyris Angeli, Kyriaki Nasioula
Spatial Design and Making: Argyris Angeli, Justyna Choli, Kyriaki Nasioula, Menglan Wu, Suh-in Park
Choreography: Kyriaki Nasioula with Georgia Tegou | Joe Walkling & Renaud Wiser (New Movement Collective)
Dance: Kyriaki Nasioula, Georgia Tegou, Joe Walkling, Renaud Wiser
Dramaturgy: Argyris Angeli, Kyriaki Nasioula
Sound Composition & Performance: Suh-in Park
Analogue Projections & Performance: Argyris Angeli
Video Art: Justyna Choli
Video Mixing & Mapping: Justyna Choli
Costume Design: Argyris Angeli
Props and Costume Making: Argyris Angeli, Menglan Wu`
Graphic Design: Suh-in Park
Production Management: Kyriaki Nasioula, Justyna Choli, Suh-in Park
Documentation: Menglan Wu
CONSULTANTS
AAIS Director: Theo Lorenz
AAIS Master: Tanja Siems
Andy Dean, Raluca Grada, Heiko Kalmbach, Sepehr Malek, David McAlmont, Joel Newman, Mauricio Pauly, Abraham Soria, Steve Webb
Produced by the Architectural Association Interprofessional Studio