Mag.Net
white space gallery, nyc. 2012
performance installation, built
mag.net, is a collaborative architectural/performance installation between e+i studio and human kinetics movement arts. It explores the interaction between the body and the environment by materializing the effects of magnetism and movement. A spider-like web made from off-the-shelf metal and elastic elements suspended in the space is reconfigured by the movements of the dancers whose bodies are magnetized with magnets embedded in their costumes. interacting through choreographed movements.
PROJECT DATA
e+i: Eva Perez de Vega + Ian Gordon, partners
Aviva Novick and Patricia Niclos, Flavia Bertorello, research assistants
human kinetics: Yana Schnitzler, artistic director.
Masumi Kishimoto, Akiko Bo Nishijima, dancers
performance photos: Harry Schnitzler