http://www.beornotbe.com/index.php/home/index/ en mojorisin53@gmail.com Copyright 2008 2008-04-09T13:46:00+10:00 http://www.beornotbe.com/index.php/site/two_dynamic_visual_interactive_experiments/ http://www.beornotbe.com/index.php/site/two_dynamic_visual_interactive_experiments/#When:13:46:00Z At the moment I am experimenting Dynamic Visual Interactive. One I called it Visual Poetry and The Other One simply caled Dynamic Visual Imagery. Both are listed under the Lab Section. A snippet of the visual Poetry : I understand that some literature purist might argue that it will break the mystery of the works. My answer is exactly as the situation when a literature works from other language is translated into other language or a novel was translated into film. I think in a simple words, in my defence, I just want to say that taking the emotion of the literature works into visual imagery, it will invoke and strengthen the perception of the meaning (of the works) - therefore I called my works with this kind of approach as a visual poetry.: A snippet of the Dynamic Visual Imagery First, I’d like to emphasize the dynamic terminology I use in this post. Dynamic in my words means un-choreograph, non-linear and less-predictable performance of (machine or body). So every time this “thing” is being executed, It will not generate same result. You will never hear a smart-arse critique say “oh, I’ve seen that”, instead “which version do you see?” Let’s have a look at the experiments above. As I explained earlier, those effects are generated dynamically means It can be created independently. The translation is: a performer (or an operator – least choice) can change certain variable as they like and it will generate different result according to the variable that he/she changed - a situation for anti-existentialist to challenge their thinking and imagination. See the details here. 2008-04-09T13:46:00+10:00 http://www.beornotbe.com/index.php/site/yumi_umiumare/ http://www.beornotbe.com/index.php/site/yumi_umiumare/#When:13:08:00Z Born in Hyogo, Japan, Yumi is trained in classical ballet and modern dance and has a degree in Physical Education from Kobe University (1988). Yumi is the only Japanese Butoh Dancer in Australia and the creator of original Butoh Cabaret works. Originally a member of the seminal Butoh Company DaiRakudakan in Tokyo, she came to Australia to perform at the Melbourne International Festival in 1991. She has appeared in numerous dance, theatre and film productions in Australia, Japan, Europe, and south-east Asia. She is also an independent performance artist, and has performed at many major national and international festivals including Adelaide Festival, Perth Festival, Melbourne International Festival, Canberra National Multicultural Festival, Hong Kong City fringe Festival, Trace-Post Butoh Festival(Copenhagen), Image of Asia Festival(Copenhagen), JADE2002(Tokyo), Festivale dell Colline torinese, Portevenere Festivale(Italy), and Japanese Theatre season(Paris). Yumi’s unique Butoh Cabaret series, DasSHOKU Productions, features Yumi in Tokyo DasSHOKU Girl (winner of Green Room and Fringe Awards), a provocative Butoh Cabaret performed at the Melbourne Fringe in 1999 and toured around Australia. The adapted version, DasSHOKU Cultivations!! had a sell-out season in Osaka in 2003 and new work DasSHOKU Hora!! was premiered in Melbourne in November 2005. Her other major dance theatre productions are Fleeting Moments (two Green Room Awards, 1998), How could you even begin to understand? (collaboration with Tony Yap, Green Room Award 2001) , in-compatibility (Melbourne International Festival 2003), INORI-in-visible (Toured Takarazuka City, Japan, Melbourne and Copenhagen).She has also worked in the theatre/ dance productions in Australia with Playbox, Handspan visual theatre, N.Y.I.D, Theatre Kantanka, Marrugeku and Chunky Move. Yumi has worked with Moira Finucane and Jackie Smith in Short Shape Shift (2003), Saucy Cantina (Hong Kong City Fringe 2004), The Banquet Room (BB05, Dancehouse 2005) and in the constantly sell out seasons of The Burlesque Hour (2004, 2005-Sydney Opera House, Adelaide, Edinburgh Fringe festival and The Famous Spiegel Tent Return season 2005) Click here for more of Yumi Umiumare Links 2008-04-09T13:08:00+10:00 http://www.beornotbe.com/index.php/site/enfoldings_disclosure/ http://www.beornotbe.com/index.php/site/enfoldings_disclosure/#When:13:29:00Z I received postcard from my friend George Khut. He and Lisa Jones show their work entitled Enfoldings & Disclosure on 11 March - 11 April 2008, at Level 4, 702 Harris Street Ultimo. It’s Free public Event. There’s no explaination or summary of the wvwnt in the postcard except it’s an interactive works - that visitors are invited to participate in. George (Poonkhin) Khut is an artist-researcher working in the area of interactive media and arts-and-health. More about him is here. News 2008-03-20T13:29:00+10:00 http://www.beornotbe.com/index.php/site/strong_language_some_violence_adult/ http://www.beornotbe.com/index.php/site/strong_language_some_violence_adult/#When:02:55:00Z Artist Michael Goldberg show his work : Strong language Some violence Adult. EXHIBITION: 07 march — 29 March.Opening 6pm Thursday 6 March at Artspace. Following are the media release I received. Michael Goldberg is interested in the point of collapse between an event and its real time broadcast, at the point Baudrillard proposed as the moment at which the event itself is rendered undecidable and virtual, stripped of any historical dimension and removed from memory. Baudrillard suggests that this process, apart from mirroring the real, in fact begins to ‘contaminate’ reality and to model it, leading ultimately to the implosion of image and reality. In exploring frameworks for the vivid reinvigoration of memory and a socially engaged and politically charged re-examination of recent historical events, Goldberg addresses our desire for global mobility, both cultural and economic, in the light of our inability to achieve global tolerance. Goldberg’s Strong language Some violence Adult themes explores the links between major articulations of power and the more-or-less trivial elements of everyday life — those that have become mnemonic ciphers of our age of anxiety. Go ahead to Artspace. News 2008-03-06T02:55:00+10:00 http://www.beornotbe.com/index.php/site/chika_a_documentary_performance/ http://www.beornotbe.com/index.php/site/chika_a_documentary_performance/#When:02:44:01Z Documentary Photographer Mayu Kanamori shows her work : Chika: A Documentary Performance. The show opens on Wednesday 5 March 8.00pm. Regular show Wed 5 – Sat 8 8pm, 2008 at Performance Space. Very good ensamble of musician working on it too as well as featuring Yumi Umiumare. News 2008-03-06T02:44:01+10:00