The beginning
Project „Reenacting Stereotypes in Tango“
Giving space cards
Decisions
Lyrics of songs as research material >> connection to video
The research question about „balance“ in dialogue instead of „equality“, inspired by, among other things, this animation:
At the beginning, I wanted to write a dialogue between different theorists and other characters. But that felt wrong, because I had to invent parts of what they say in the dialogue without knowing if they would say it like that. In the end, I wrote a dialogue between different roles of myself which felt much better.
discovery of „dialogical self theory“ for my research paper
Methods
Dialogue: balance in dialogues
Keyword relations
Images and text: screenshots of the video-peformance and fragments of the lyrics
“De un Borges soñado por Borges (Of a Borges dreamed by Borges)”
Much Messi – very messy!
“I don’t know what’s playing deep in my emotions. […] I step on slippery sidewalks. I’m slowly moving along.”
Roberta y mares (here will be a quote of Roberta talking about friendship in distance)
“J´ai traversé le ciel y mil mares (I have crossed the sky and a thousand seas)”, but “es otra pajina otro cielo otro dìa hoy (it’s another page, another sky, another day today)”, “c’est la vie (that’s life)”.
“la hora de archivar el corazón (the time to archive the heart)” and “de matar los sueños (to kill the dreams)” beating “al compás del reloj; como una máquina fiel igual que un robot: sin piel! (to the rhythm of the clock; like a faithful machine, just like a robot: without skin!)“
Alfredo y Tango
“Porque puestos a sonar, fácil es imaginar esa humanidad en harmonía. Vibra mi mente al pensar en la posibilidad de encontrar un rumbo diferente. (Because when we dream, it is easy to imagine that humanity in harmony. My mind vibrates when I think of the possibility of finding a different path.)”
“Quitarse el cuerpo de a poco, sacar a brillar el alma (Removing the body little by little, bringing out the soul to shine)”.
Songs:
Bajofondo ft. Nelly Furtado: “Slippery Sidewalks”
Bajofondo, Luciano Supervielle: “Pulso (1000 mares)”
Electrocutango: “Sin Piel”
Gotán Project: “Diferente“
Otros Aires: “Amor o Nada”
Otros Aires: “Los Ojos de Borges”
Otros Aires: “Much Messi”
Live video performance
Example 1: A video in the background and a green screen scene for hands, which I use as an alpha mask
Example 2: A video, and a text scene which I can control with buttons of the midi
Rather scientific text about dialogue as research method
follows…
What I learned
It is a good way of doing research for me to alternate between different methods and practices.
I made experiences in using live visuals to tell a planned story
Presentation in April
- A previously prepared video that consists of material of my live video scenes
- A book with introduction, research paper, dialogue, keyword relations and a poster with image and text combinations
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