BE YOUR SELF PERFORMANCE: ADELAIDE FESTIVAL, AUSTRALIA, 2010
This dance piece, in collaboration with Garry Stewart and the Australian Dance Theatre, investigates the concept of self by re-presenting conventions we use to convince ourselves of a singular ‘I’. Dance, spoken text, video graphics and architecture are used to collapse the underpinnings of who we think we are by reframing the relationship between ‘I,’ and our physical, mechanical bodies. As part of this inquiry, DS+R designed a white fabric covered wall that moves from upstage to down, out of which body parts emerge and interact and moving images are projected.
They call their series Exactitudes: a contraction of exact and attitude. By registering their subjects in an identical framework, with similar poses and a strictly observed dress code, Versluis and Uyttenbroek provide an almost scientific, anthropological record of people’s attempts to distinguish themselves from others by assuming a group identity. The apparent contradiction between individuality and uniformity is, however, taken to such extremes in their arresting objective-looking photographic viewpoint and stylistic analysis that the artistic aspect clearly dominates the purely documentary element.
Join Paris based Edouard François for the RIBA's Ozolins Lecture 2010. Having become one of the main protagonists of international green architecture, his work focuses on context, environment, landscape, economy and innovation, with designs that integrate both the natural and built environments.
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