Showing posts with label dance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dance. Show all posts

MRWN - the art of Marwen Ben Cheikh


anonymous waves White Page Gallery proudly presents MRWN - the art of Marwen Ben Cheikh. This Special Event takes place for just 5 days from March 8th to 12th, and features recent film and sound work by this unique Tunisian artist. The exhibition will also feature 2 live ZOOM sessions with MRWN and his collaborators beaming in from Mali, Tunisia and Australia. Still from MOVE_ featuring the dancer Wael Marghni. The exhibition will be viewable here...

Fingers

Collaboration with Denitsa Dikova

COPE (Communities of practice emerging) Second workshop, Bega, Sunday March 31 2019


Footage from the second workshop of the COPE (Communities of practice emerging) project in the Bega Valley. Initiated by Gabriela Green Olea the project is funded under a CASP (Country Arts Support Program) grant administered by Regional Arts NSW (RANSW) on behalf of Create NSW. Apart from the introductory talk all performances were impromptu improvisations.

COPE (Communities of practice emerging) First workshop, Bega, Sunday February 10 2019


Footage from the first workshop of the COPE (Communities of practice emerging) project in the Bega Valley. Initiated by Gabriela Green Olea the project is funded under a CASP (Country Arts Support Program) grant administered by Regional Arts NSW (RANSW) on behalf of Create NSW. The first workshop was mentored by Alison Plevey. Apart from the introductory talks all performances were impromptu improvisations.

360 glitch dance


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Liquid Electric Dance


Dance: Alison Plevey & Gabriela Green Olea. Music: BoomBox. Video: Bob Georgeson from original footage shot by Martin Ollman. This video is supported by CREATE NSW, with special thanks to fLiNG Physical Theatre and QL2 Dance.

Cormorant Dance


This video is the result of the third visit to Camel Rock on Monday November 12th 2018. Performance by Gabriela Green Olea...

Third Visit November 12th 2018 (stills)








Pics from yesterday's session at Camel Rock with the incredible Gabriela Green Olea! Video to come soon...

Second Visit April 9th 2018



From the second exploration about the development of a video/performance work. With Gabriela Green Olea (dancer and social artist), Joy Georgeson (sculptor) and Bob Georgeson (video artist). Camel Rock, South Eastern Australia, Monday April 9th 2018. Music by Viktor Sethy...

First Visit March 5th 2018



Documentation of the first discussion about the development of a video/performance work. With Gabriela Green Olea (dancer and social artist), Joy Georgeson (sculptor) and Bob Georgeson (video artist). Camel Rock, South Eastern Australia, Monday March 5th 2018.

Talking with Strangers



I have been asked a few times recently where my ideas come from and does my art have any meaning? So I thought I would write about process. First let me say that I am not interested in narrative film making. I am interested in the art of ideas. When people watch my films I want to convey a sense of mystery and often a sense of unease. I am also fascinated in film at how the human mind makes associations even though they may not be entirely intended. When I start a work I do not always have a preconceived notion of how it will end up. The work evolves. Even though not all of my films are made this way the following is not an uncommon example. My latest work Talking with Strangers began during the week with a message from sound artist APatch OfNettles via Facebook saying that I may be interested in a collaborative half hour radio 'collage' that had just been published by a group of Australian and British sound artists (including himself) known as Pangaean Permafaction. It was based on the HG Wells gothic story The Red Room. I listened to the piece several times, and, as so often happens images came to mind. I started thinking about red rooms initially and then empty rooms. However I wasn't going to tackle a half hour video 'illustrating' the piece. During creating and editing a film I might sit through the same footage 30 or 40 times, which is one reason why my videos are fairly short. The other reason is that with the average humans attention span I think it is testing one's patience (and mine) to expect that anyone is going to sit through long works when they are delivered on an online channel. After listening to the sound collage I began searching through my video libraries for 'rooms' and came across several clips. Along the way I stumbled across other bits of footage that I thought might be interesting one day down the track. In order not to forget the clips I had found that afternoon I opened up a new PowerDirector (my editing software) file and imported those clips so I would remember where they were. Late in the day I started throwing a few clips into the timeline and playing around with flips, chroma key transparencies and other techniques and thought that something interesting might be evolving. Next morning I reviewed what I had done, and found it interesting enough visually to continue experimenting. At this rough draft stage I also started looking for a soundtrack. I have a large library of sound files and usually first port of call are those artists I have previously worked with. I usually look for sound that is not too prescriptive, sounds that tend to defy categorizations of genre. Many hours were spent trying out different tracks before finding Keep a Float by andRetTheNettles. It's an instinctive 'got it' type moment when the piece starts to come together, and it is often around this point that 'meaning' (if indeed there is any) becomes apparent. From there it is a matter of tightening the editing to work in with the soundtrack, little tweaks here and there, bits added and removed before I run it past Joy, my principal adviser. If she gives it the nod then I publish as a password protected file on Vimeo and in this case message APatch OfNettles to preview and hopefully approve. He did. From there it is made publicly available on Vimeo and published to my website and the definite repository on the Internet Archive. In the case of Talking with Strangers it was a nice loop from the initial notification from APatch OfNettles to using one of his sound art creations. The process is simultaneously random and controlled, and fits in with one of the most basic of surrealist principles of 'chance encounters'. Logic has nothing to do with it. For the technically minded all footage is sourced from the Internet Archive, Vimeo, YouTube or supplied by collaborators. Sound files are sourced from the Internet Archive, Free Music Archive, Soundcloud, ccMixter, Jamendo or supplied by collaborators. All material is licensed under the Creative Commons Non Commercial Share Alike International licence and is distributed free of charge and available as downloadable files to be reused as you wish.

The Secret Of Your Voice



Contribution to We Invented Nothing - a film by Julija Paskeviciute and Lisa Kovalenko. Bierumer Art Movie Festival, Netherlands 2017/18.

Sun Dance



A celebration of life and the love of nature. Choreography and dance by Alina Stefan. Music by Alessio Lottero. Video by Bob Georgeson.

phenomenon



Music by Hidden Tribe