DISCOTHEQUE: Et interaktivt rominstallasjonsprosjekt med utgangspunkt i dans som situasjon. Av Sandra Vaka (NO) og Marlie Mul (NL). Vi tar utgangspunkt i den velkjente diskokulen, speilkulen, speilballen eller ballspeilet. Overflaten består av hundrevis eller tusenvis av fasetter, alle med en speil-overflate. Den er vanligvis montert godt over publikums hoder, og roterer slik at lyset blinker rundt publikum.
Vi ønsker å bruke dette til å skape en ny erfaring av konteksten hvor et klubb-event finner sted. På Tou Scene vil vi bygge et ”disko-rom” i utstillingslokalet eller klubblokalet. Et kubeformet nytt rom bygget av lo-fi materialer som skumgummi, kartong og hønsenetting skaper et ”sub-rom” i rommet. Kuben vil utfordre publikum som vil bli konfrontert med sine egne bevegelser og reaksjonsmønster i et mye trangere rom hvor speilrefleksen i en overdrevent stor speilkule vil bryte opp mønstere.
Publikums forhold til egen dans vil med dette spores inn mot nye erfaringer. Man blir sin egen tilskuer, deltaker i et rituale man trodde man kjente, men som nå kan få nye betydninger.
Discothèque
Sandra Vaka (NO) and Marlie Mul (NL)
A club is in first instance a generally unquestioned phenomenon. And maybe it is better left like this: the last place during an average week where things are exactly how you know them and expect them to be. The rules are different throughout the world, and the spaces are not always a neutral getaway; these exhibitionist places where you yourself choose your moment to shine.
Let us re-introduce you to the generally well known disco ball, mirror ball, glitter ball, or ball mirror. It a roughly spherical object that reflects light directed at it in many directions, producing a complex display. Its surface consists of hundreds or thousands of facets, nearly all of approximately the same shape and size, and each having a mirrored surface. Usually it is mounted well above the heads of the people present, suspended from a device that causes it to rotate steadily on a vertical axis so that stationary viewers experience beams of light flashing over them.
We intend on using this phenomenon to create a new way of experiencing the context where the event takes place. At Tou Scene we will build a “disco room” in the exhibition space, or in the concert/club space. A cube formed new room built from low-fi materials such as Styrofoam, cardboard and chicken wire forms a “sub-space” standing freely in the room. A smaller tunnel shape leads the visitors to this smaller closed off room and disco-island, in the large space that they are familiar with in their local club. The rest of the concert/club space can function as it normally does, only the cube space will be standing in the middle of the room. Instead of the regular sized disco ball, the visitor will directly notice the exaggerated size of the turning disco-ball, that takes over the whole space; there is a small space left on the sides and corners of the cube-shaped room, a small space for moving and meeting. The participants in this club will be faced with their own mirror reflection from the big disco ball as well as the challenge of having a lot smaller space to move in, which at the same time questions their presence in the space as their regular ways of acting in a pace as such. Whilst the disco ball slowly spins, the dancing foot will be made to itch with an exclusive music mix selected by the Swedish International Performance Exchange (INPEX).
