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Using The Body As Canvas In B0DYSC4PES

Art collective 1minute69 explore the interaction between body, visuals, and sound.

Confirmed by Beyonce’s recent performance at the Billboard Music Awards, it seems live performance visuals are so hot right now. But as Kenzo Digital stated in our interview last week, these techniques have been around for a while, pioneered by artists like Andy Warhol and Nam June Paik—it is only now they’ve made the leap from art world to mainstream. And while it will no doubt continue to get absorbed into high profile pop performances, its multimedia pedigree lies in the smaller shows, and that’s where the true boundary-pushing work will continue to take place. Shows like art collective 1minute69’s recent audiovisual spectacle B0DYSC4PES (above), which had its inaugural performance at the Live Performers Meeting in Rome, Italy.

Adept at projection mapping and AV installation, 1minute69 merge the two in this piece, which explores the representation of the human body through projected light and sound. More subtle than Beyonce’s highly kinetic performance, it also differs in its use of the human body as a canvas for the visuals. Covered in a body suit, the dancer becomes an abstract portrait of the human form, with patterns framing and filling the familiar outline as it acts as both host and partner to these dancing shapes.

Below is a video of one of their workshops where they experiment with the visuals, and some images from their workshops are in the slideshow above.

[via Infrabodies.com]