“Holy Black Project” is building on a collaborative work which began during the Transcultural Collaboration Programm 2017 between art students from Zürich and Hong Kong. This experience has made significant impact on me on a personal as well as artistic level and it has resonated within others as well, unveiling itself as a creative medium to explore and communicate.The first iteration of this project culminated with the performance of “Dull Boy Jack” in Hong Kong CFXXX. The collaboration with artists evolved from this piece and the concept of the next iteration “Enlightenment” has been born by integrating a film as a fulcrum for a musical and dance performance. “Enlightenment” was the first of the series of works where the tabu topics are being contemplated. It addresses the actual topics on the level of art, education, everyday life and the social future. The aim is to work on the humanitarian issues through collaborative, inter-disciplinary artistic approach. It should also allow to create a new form of dialogue between the different fields.
The performance is divided into parts where live music, dance and film interplay with each other. The auditive side of the performance is created through surround -live- electronic soundscape (12.1) and composed- improvised music played with live acoustic instruments and electronics. The movie will be projected on multiple surfaces. At first, there is no noticeable interaction between live music and the plot of the movie, but after short time the music starts to direct the plot of the movie and short after the visual part affects the music as well. The interplay between realities gets stronger to the point that picture of the musicians is immersing into the picture of the movie (programmed with Max MSP). The audience is being pulled into the this virtual-real state through the surround visual-audible space.
(Work in progress, November 2019)
In this project I was responsible for concept of the performance, as well as sound design and music.