4ROOMS (2023)

4ROOMS – is a four screen installation, showing videos (Base, Rhythm, Rave, Metal) that refer to The Dream House World. Within The Dream House World, all experience that the characters have, movement of their bodies, their feelings, emotional states and sweat becomes the fuel, the energy that keeps the program working.

The idea is to explore these states in creating a world between documentation and fiction. Each video focuses on a specific performance and specific music genre. Each score, composed with Wladimir Schall is supposed to bring a different emotional and physical reaction of the participants. Base score was designed in order to access the core – the gravity point. Metal score relates to the strings being pulled, the tendons, the muscles and the limbs. Rave score with its high pitch rhythm brings the heartbeat up. It relates to blood flow – the ecstasy and the fatigue. Rhythm score with its deconstructed rhythmics focuses on corporal communication as in – the beginning of the language.

In the videos the main timeline of the performance from the room is kept true to reality, with some elements happening in different spaces (elevators, corridors, an outdoor mirror sphere) suggesting a parallel – maybe mental dimension – that the characters access through the state of trance induced by the music or the system of the program itself.

Each of the rooms is connected loosely with a different stage of a transformation of a butterfly and at the same time represents a stage of growing up as an individual and within a group. Each video was shot by the personal cameras that the performers were wearing, the hidden cameras and a 3rd person camera shot as well as some parts of deformed 360 degree camera. That way the perception of the space is confused and the spectator gets the access to the experience as almost a player in a video game, switching between avatars.

4 ROOMS, 2023

video installation

Installation view of the TONO Festival for performance, dance, music and video art in Mexico City, Centro de Cultura Digital, Mexico City, MX

BASE ROOM

Password : BASE

METAL ROOM

Password : METAL

RAVE ROOM

Password : RAVE

RYTHM ROOM

Password : RYTHM

credits:

videos based on the three videos from the exhibition Rescue Dummies,2021, expanding the idea of Butterfly Dreams, 2021

Producer : Garush Melkonyan

DOP: Delphine Mouly

Camera Assistant: Raphael Massart

Editing: Agata Ingarden

Music: Wladimir Schall

Choreography / organization of the movement: Nicolas Faubert

Costumes: Agata Ingarden, Fanny Devaux, Inner Light

Set Assistant : Emma Wattiau

 

Performers: Anders Dickson, Nicolas Faubert, Masha Silchenko, Rafael Moreno, Pierre-Clément Malet, Louis Desbordes, Benjamin Leclerc, Klara Jogałła, Agata Ingarden, Garush Melkonyan, Delphine Mouly