recombinant

In recombinant, the spectators enter an open space where they can circulate freely like visitors to an installation. The performers are already in interaction with images and sounds, which they alter by means of sensors. They then manipulate four mobile projection surfaces – curved and angular, opaque and translucid – , constantly reconfiguring the performance space. Their manipulations cause a set of changing architectural constructions to appear, calling on the spectators to change position.

As they move, the audience members access multiple points of view, transparencies, and layers of images and sounds. The performers’ bodies multiply, reflected not only in the mechanical, but also in the media extensions. They become the pivots of a time-organizing machine and take part in setting in place an auto-poiëtic system. What stood out in the creation of this piece in artistic terms was the particular attention given to the perpetual reconfiguration of the performance space in relation to the spectators’ movements and changing positions. This switching back and forth between shifting positions and the physical cohabitation of the performers and the spectators provided an occasion for what may be termed crowd sociology/choreography.