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Title: 
Cosmogony
Programme: 
Prototipoak. International Biennial of New Artistic Forms
Date: 
01-06-2023
Place: 
Auditorium, floor -1
Artist(s): 
Jobin, Gilles
Curator(s): 
Casado, Rosa
López, Maider (1975- )
Noël, Stéphane
Pérez, Fernando
Produced by: 
Azkuna Zentroa - Alhóndiga Bilbao
Type: 
Performance
Tags: 
Performance
Virtual reality
Digital art
Art and technology
Summary: 

On a world tour, the Gilles Jobin company presents Cosmogony in Bilbao.
The live digital performance takes place in Geneva, featuring three dancers who are motion captured live at Gilles Jobin Company’s studio and screened in real time at the Auditorium of Azkuna Zentroa.
The captured movements are sliced up into digital ‘bits’ and sent instantaneously through cyberspace to appear as avatars to an audience for a live audience, hundreds of miles away from the company’s studio. The dancers’ bodies and their avatars are entangled like particles in a quantum state, performing spooky actions at a distance, their movements instantaneously teleported across the world.The dancers act as the puppeteers of their own bodies, animating their avatars in real time and composing the cosmogony of a world in suspension. In a cosmic space or in the heart of a virtual city, the moving bodies of the dancers break free from the laws of physics to the droning analogue sounds of Swiss doom rock band Tar Pond, offering the audience a mesmerizing journey beyond reality.
Cosmogony premiered in 2021 at the SIFA Festival in Singapore, was selected for the 2022 Sundance Festival and won the Most Innovative Use of Technology Award at the FilmGate Festival in Miami 2022. It has already been screened live from Geneva and without traveling in 10 cities and 8 countries of 3 continent.

Description: 

Director: Gilles Jobin
Dancers: Susana Panadés Diaz, Rudi van der Merwe, JozsefTrefeli
Lead Dance Artist: Susana Panadés Diaz
Lead 3D Artist: Tristan Siodlak
Lead Technologist: Camilo de Martino
Lead Technical Artist: Pierre-Igor Berthet
Motion Capture: Pedro Ribot
Mocap cameras: Qualisys
Music: Tar Pond
Music Arrangement: Marky Edelmann, Tommy Vetterli
Mastering: Dan Suter / Echo Chamber
Administration: GonzagueBochud
Production: Cie Gilles Jobin
Related activities: 
Prototipoak. International Biennial of New Artistic Forms (2023)
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