• If We Vanish
  • If We Vanish
  • If We Vanish
  • If We Vanish
  • If We Vanish
  • If We Vanish
  • Danceperformance
  • Danceperformance
  • Danceperformance

If we vanish

in collaboration with Nikhil Nagaraj, Ronita Mookerji, Tobias Feldmeier

Jahr: 2022
Format: audiovisual dance performance
Länge: 45min

If we Vanish is an immersive audio-visual and contemporary dance performance presenting an artistic study about some of the most quiet and secluded places in the world. The project was initiated in collaboration with Nikhil Nagaraj, following a series of audio field recordings of these isolated spots. Along with a solo performer, we explored the aesthetic representation of these endangered soundscapes and further scout its potential of mutations, which can be caused by the impact and presence of mankind. In the performance this second layer of transforming the space and its characterisation is derived by tracking the body and gestures of the dancer. It can be seen as the interactive variable, which interpolates in a purely natural dataset, and which of course will appear in several states of awareness. A three-dimensional interstice created by spatial sound arrangements and a depth-generating projection mapping surrounds the audience and will aurally and visually transport them into a tropical jungle, the middle of a desert or into the dark of one of the deepest caves in the world. This performance showcases some of the most pristine, untouched ecologically diverse environments, which have been excluded from human interactions for thousands of years but are now in danger of becoming non-existent.

Credits:

Directors & Sound Artists: Felix Deufel & Nikhil Nagaray
Performance: Ronita Mookerji
Visual Artist: Tobias Feldmeier
Dramaturg: Aruna Ganesh Ram
Light Design: Niranjan Gokhale 
Project Manager: Spriha Nakhare

Team premiere Leipzig ZiMMT

Audio Streaming & Binaural Mixing: Konstantin Fontaine & Martin Recker 
Camera: David Simmons
Streaming: Paul Haupmeier
Foto: Nina Buttendorf
Assistenz: Karoline Schneider, Julia Ernst, Jakob Gruhl

The Production was kindly supported by:

12hz Sound Laboratories
Goethe Institut
Goethe Institut Max Mueller Bhavan
ZiMMT e.V. 
The Isro
Netzwerk NMK Medien Kunst
Keijn