Projection, Body and Storytelling
With a focus on an interdisciplinary, experiment-based approach to collaboration, this class will explore approaches to combine projected moving image with live performers, objects, and space. Students will work collaboratively in small teams to create several iterative projects growing in complexity and scale, leading to completed short-form performance works to be showcased at the end of the semester. The course will examine and discuss works by contemporary artists and theater companies as a jumping off point for exploration of various approaches to projection, scale, material, and performance. The class will also strongly consider the production of such projects, from equipment, tools, collaboration process, and creating tech riders.
Students must have intermediate to advanced experience in their major discipline, and a strong desire to apply those skills in a collaborative, cross-disciplinary environment.
Instructor: Miwa Matreyek
Tuesdays 1:00-5:30PM in the CIM building
3 Credits
Featured on this page are some of my past collaborative work – with my theater company, Cloud Eye Control and other theater/dance companies, as well as a few images from workshops.
As a visual storyteller, I am interested in the transformation of the body when it is layered with a projected image, and the transformation of space when a projected image can become a set, an environment, or a psychological world.
I am interested in the intersection of live-ness and pre-made media, the cinematic and theatrical.
I am a firm believer in the impulse to play, the process of tinkering and problem-solving, trial-and-error, and finding the magic moment when a narrative unfolds.
Some possible ways we might play in this class: projection on body, costumes, and objects, projections on various surfaces, integration of live-cam footage, projection on to miniatures, floor projection, etc.
Please visit my main site www.semihemisphere.com to see more of my work and trailers from the projects below.
