Artist Introductions: Rosana Antoli Introduces Virtual Choreography, Arebyte, Oct 8th - Nov 8th
Virtual Choreography is a project that focuses on the intersection of art, choreography and everyday life. My opening question for the project would be: What gestures do you perform everyday?
Virtual Choreography is a project which I have been working on for almost two years and I will present it for the first time in London in October. The idea was to create a virtual map, an online platform that can be used as an archive of each community’s every day movements. From this geographical archaeology of gestures we can find out about the identity of the area.
The people who collaborate are asked to chose the gesture they perform the most during their day; this could be typing on a keyboard or steering a car. This gestural homage to their everyday life is repeated on the recording and then decontextualised. People give me one minute of their time for the recording process. Here we can find a relation to Erwin Wurm’s One Minute Sculptures which I have used and retitled One Minute of Social Choreography for my exhibition. Another inspiration is Lefebvre because of his work which deals with the relationship of time and space, and his research in the rhythm within the city.
The project will be exhibited at arebyte gallery; a space specialising in Performance and New Media work. They perfectly understand the open nature of the project with its intangibility and its emphasis on being experiential. Alongside their help, for this project we have had the generous support of Arts Council England.
This is the first time I have presented a work where the duration is not limited within the exhibition time. This project starts in London but it will continue in forthcoming years in different cities such as Barcelona and New York. My hope is that the project will have an unlimited duration, capturing and documenting communities in a digital form.This is the first time the research and project will be collected on a website and the results of which can be viewed online.
The exhibition aims to question our movements and be conscious of the gestures or choreographies that we do automatically in our daily lives. It also questions how to make the identity of a region like Hackney Wick more visible. The area is currently in a period of transition, being changed rapidly by developers, which ultimately affects the locals and their sense of community.
Arebyte Presents
Virtual Choreography
First Gestures Virtual World Map
by Rosana Antoli
Opening 7th Oct
8th Oct - 8th Nov
49 White Post Lane
White Post Lane
London E9 5EN
