Tag: Pauline Jennings
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Notweed
About: About Notweed Japanese Knotweed (Reynoutria japonica) is an invasive species in Vermont. Notweed, Rural Noise Ensemble’s interactive sound installation, was a response to the violent language of localism, the semiotics of foreignness and invasion of containment, management, and eradication that quietly trains us to accept xenophobia and racism. The installation is an immersive soundscape,…
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Soundtrack for Mutable Spirals of Ascension
About Soundtrack for Mutable Spirals of Ascension is an audio composition created for an experimental dance for camera work, Mutable Spirals of Ascension. Directed by Jessica Gomula and choreographed by Pauline Jennings, the work follows two dancers as they navigate Shanghai’s bustling streets, urban forests and massive industrial sites in search of connections to wild.…
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Veritable Vicissitudes (Dubai)
Veritable Vicissitudes (Dubai) from Sean Clute on Vimeo. About Veritable Vicissitudes, by Double Vision, is a multi-projection video and sound installation. Audience found themselves moving through a maze of hanging scrims outdoors on the campus of American University – Dubai. Willingly, or not, their own bodies become participants as light and shadows create overlays echoed…
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Quotidian Mandala
Quotidian Mandala Trailer from jessica gomula on Vimeo. About This is the soundtrack for the dance film Quotidian Mandala. The work shows a solo dancer searching for enlightenment through cycles of repetition. Infused with strength, emotional intuition, and fierce intellect, she embraces her own demure fragility. She is at moments elusive; viewers just catch the…
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Evolutionary Patterns and the Lonely Owl (Mutation #2)
Evolutionary Patterns and the Lonely Owl (Mutation #2) from Sean Clute on Vimeo. About Intermedia performance group Double Vision (directed by myself and Pauline Jennings) presented a large-scale event exploring simultaneity, chaos, and rule-based interaction through dance, music, video, art and technology as part of ArtSFest. Evolutionary Patterns and the Lonely Owl encouraged the audience…
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Disembodied Head
Disembodied Head from Sean Clute on Vimeo. About Disembodied Head is an intermedia performance series that utilized new technologies and performance in varied ways to look at the separation anxiety and desires of the body and mind at moments of disconnect. The work examines what happens when the natural connection of the mind and body…
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Hysteresis (excerpt)
Hysteresis (excerpt) from Sean Clute on Vimeo. About Hysteresis is 70 minutes of dance, sound, lights, and costumes informed by a residency at the Museumsquartier in Vienna, Austria. The work is a metaphor for the state of being alien or observing that which is alien to oneself. Free from traditional structures and narratives, Hysteresis evokes…
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Circles (excerpt)
Circles from Sean Clute on Vimeo. About Circles is an interactive performance created in collaboration with intermedia group DOUBLE VISION and the University of Arizona Schools of Music and Dance. During the event, dancers interacted with IR-sensors networked to computers running custom audio-video software. The mapping of the dancers’ movements therefore provided data to create…
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Luminosity but sometimes Troll
About This is an experimental electronic composition created for the contemporary dance work 6 Phrases, 3 Rules by choreographer Pauline Jennings. As is true with much of Jennings’ choreography, the movement is abstract while the choreography is generated through human adherence and interpretation of set rules. Thus, I approached the music by first taking a…
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Wolfram Projections
Wolfram Projections from Sean Clute on Vimeo. About Wolfram Projections was a live video performance/installation for the Oakland Underground Film Festival as part of the illuminated corridor project. Pauline Jennings and myself projected lines, shapes, dots, and Wolfram patterns onto the outside of the Art Deco Theater in Alameda California. The video was inspired by…
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Big Timber (CHOP, CHOP!)
Big Timber (CHOP, CHOP!) from Sean Clute on Vimeo. About Big Timber (CHOP!, CHOP!) is a animation in which characters Conuton Valve and Coon Dog meet at The Monopole in Plattsburgh, New York to find themselves traveling to California in the quest for gold and the Plasma Cloud. The piece attempts to blend historical and…