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Iona Kewney/Gina Czarnecki 

Sun 18 Feb 2001

Bullet At Sternum 

20.30

(performance/video/sound)

The Tall Ship 

Glasgow Harbour

100 Stobcross Road

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The fight of phenomenal forces. Arithmetical Versus Geometric comBines to design HaRMONIC. Careful cosmological construction Risks explosive destruction. MathematicAl graftings with mechanical insertions form psychological body ReDesign. Induced to flaRe - body dares to open wound of innertune. Turbulent suBmarginal forces of physical source moves dance ill-ease-line-design creates body of new stAtus. Re-BORN torn to abscess form of beauty for a mutating WORld. Diseased by ideA spasms into HyBreed - "Survival of the fittest" - evolution of a species best adapted to changing environment. Resultant articulAted NewmalignaNt of controlled dispATCH to unPredictABLE out. I lost a leg to wing… MORphing and MuTATION of FoRM and PROcess. PIONEER and RAnger of free-radical improvisory structures moving on Peripheries and extremities of the figure as it changes. Bound and separated by synaptic VORTEX. BULLET.

 

A site specific culmination of two collaborative cross media research projects in which both collaborators respond to dance artist Kewney's unique movement vocabulary…Hybrid, Intermixing… The soundscape has been created by BARRY 7 of experimental electronic music ensemble Add N to (X) through an interchange of ideas, meetings and letters to form a unique score for this NRLA 2001 presentation. The digitally manipulated body mutations have been invented and developed by acclaimed filmmaker Gina Czarnecki.