MISPERFORMING WORKSHOP

CoLab, in collaboration with the School of Art & Design at AUT, is pleased to announce the MISPERFORMING PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP with HELLEN SKY and BRANDON HUR on Sunday 29th November at Artworks Theatre,  Waiheke Island from 9.00am-4.00pm.

For registration contact Dawn.Hutchesson@aut.ac.nz or call (09)921 9566.

This workshop is for Artists, Performers, Architects, Industrial Designers, Film Makers and Scholars wishing to engage in experiential design. It is through the coming together of different practices that this workshop will create the opportunity to play with experiential design concepts.

When we design experiences, ephemeral, architectural, performative, actualised in objects, in sites, to be seen, felt or touched, we return to a multi sensory perception - a deep sensing of the flows between interconnected systems as patterns of movement. In some cases it might

be understood as the difference between frames, in motion tracking, or bio sensing interfaces, we perceive the data flows and the possibilities of the transformation of those flows, from touch speed, velocity and force to and through our sensory perceptions. This becomes the matter. The determining what difference in these patterns can achieve in the listening to this reciprocal breathing, the movement between our organic physical and virtual world.

18 places are offered for this performance workshop – places are filling quickly so enrol now. $170 standard, $90 student.

The full programme for the workshop includes the 9 am Ferry to Waiheke, workshop and finishes with wine & pizza at Stoneyridge vineyard with a return 8.15pm Ferry back to Auckland. Small working groups will begin in the morning.

session then come together at the end of the day.

HELLEN SKY is a renowned Australian digital choreographer / performer/ director/ writer.  A graduate of the Australian Ballet School, Helen was a founding member of the Australian performing group PRAM and Circuz Oz. She co-founded and directed new media performance companies In Space, Dancehouse and the Centre for Moving Arts. Her multidisciplinary work merges human creativity and computer productivity through performance, dance, theatre and installation. Hellen Sky & collaborators aim to innovate in the performing arts and media arts, by devising transdisciplinary projects, using the potential of human creativity and the inventiveness of computer interactivity to find new ways of telling stories relevant to the complex climates of the 21st century. She seeks to engage audiences regardless of age or culture, through the imaginative interplay of images, movement, spoken word and virtual through physical design that touch our senses with humour and beauty. Her projects are multidisciplinary, and merge human creativity with computer productivity to pioneer a language that is better suited to transcribing the experience of the 21st Century.
 
"Hellen Sky" is a visionary in the field of performance/technology truly a hybrid artist who creatively orchestrates physics, consciousness and aesthetics to create multi-dimensional transformative theatrical experiences that integrates computer animation, motion capture and interactive technologies to poetically bridge the human  and the technological, the mundane and the lofty" (Ellen Bromberg, Director, The Center for Interdisciplinary Arts and Technology, University of Utah, USA).

Further information on Hellen Sky at: www.hellensky.com.

 BRANDON HUR is an Industrial designer with an interest in tangible interaction between an object and human body movement. Brandon devises interactive objects using a range of remote sensor technology to orchestrate connectivity to actual unique design objects to virtual projection environments. He does this in collaboration with dancers, choreographers, and industrial design projects. Through interaction design, he brings out the importance of movement as extension of perceptional field and its relationship to surrounding environment, especially objects. By collaborating with dancers, choreographers and designers, he reintroduced the notion of design as interdisciplinary research and practice.