BLUSCRN

Project Description

BLUSCRN is a multimedia dance work exploring contemporary advertising in relation to the body. Using a full blue morphsuit, a blue environment filled with blue objects, and chroma key software, the performance is live-captured, manipulated, and composited onto monitors, from which other worlds, environments, and desires emerge. An exploration of flat media and hyper marketing, BLUSCRN takes inspiration from popular culture: music videos, magazines, commercials, fashion, and cinema. Conceptually grounded as an investigation into how the body has become warped and exploited in contemporary marketing practices, the piece is simultaneously an attempt to understand how the North American body politic has shifted in the last twenty years. The use of blue paint, a blue morphsuit, a blue backdrop and our chromakey application via Isadora together constitute a highly layered and flexible treatment of dance and body in two dimensions.

Company Profile

FakeKnot is the umbrella entity for inclusive performance works that play with the complexities of identity and culture through costume, sound, technology, and movement. FakeKnot is grounded in street, commercial, and contemporary dance techniques that honours the queer, POC identity of Artistic Director, Ralph Escamillan. All work made within the framework of FakeKnot focuses on highly collaborative processes. Past collaborations include new media artists Sammy Chien and Nancy Lee, sound designer Stefan Seslija, and local brands Lululemon Lab and Five Left Leather. Collaboration as a practice of knowledge co-creation is essential for FakeKnot in the ways it can generate differences and bring differences together.

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