Hunted by the powers above, the audience submits to obedience

 

THIS ROOM IS AN ISlAND (2024)

camera-MIDI-ISADORA 3 / UNREAL ENGINE

An developing adaption of This room is an island. The memories are intensified in a much larger space, and the audience has the oppurtunities an immersive and interactive experience. dancers and ‘officers’ takes control with the help of the “room,” an entity that observe, dictate and transport the audience through the use of 4 projectors. this is achieved with a mixture of softwares. unreal engine for the cinematice dream scene and isadora 3 for general control of the projectors and post processing.

Projectors

As the game ends, the lost ones are taken into interrogation, there they will get their mugshots taken. afterwards general surveillance is made itself known to the audience, looking for more people of treason. For this section a camera was connected to the main laptop with isadora 3 to take the photos and process them for the projector scenes

The captured spies are processed as the pictures were taken just earlier. As the rest of the audience is instructed dance the national health dance, the results of the game previously played is projected in full view. through isadora 3 the images are superimposed on ‘newspapers’ with provocative headlines accusing the captured “spies” of treacherous acts. Eyes are covered to allow some level of anonymity

DREAM SCENe

after the spies are found and eliminated, the audience is instructed to sit and immerese in the dream scene. a scene flows through a collage of fragmented memories, puppets guide you deeper into their world. the scene is created using real memories, then rearranged into a real but fictional world in unreal engine

LINE DANCE

in the last SECTIONs, an image created during an earlier part of the performance is projected onto the dancer. This image is now controlled via the AKAI LPD8 midi controller. This was used to manually manipulate the image in real time, reacting to the dancers movements. This created a haunting effect, the dancer enveloping and breaking as the dancer navigated through the music and image

TEAM

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