Imagery of perfection

Is change possible? What kind of change can we imagine today? Within technology, biology, and sexuality everything is evidently possible. You can travel to the Moon. You can become immortal through bio technology. You can have sex with animals or whatever you like. But when it comes to the society and the economy almost everything is considered impossible. But imagine if we are the ones who know that it cannot continue this way.

Imagine if we are the ones that know deep within that we have failed. That the Earth, the climate, the crisis, the overpopulation, the consumption; EVERYTHING is going under and there is no use in screaming growth. Imagine if we are the ones who know it. Imagine if we are the ones who say that will not take it anymore. We cannot take it anymore. We want a different tale – a different story. What story would it then be?

Last year Aarhus Festival (Denmark) conducted the streaming experiment ‘Death Lines’ where artists placed around the world performed together via digital technology.
Building on those experiences and adding artistic depth to the format, last August ‘Imagery of Perfection – A Global Concert’ has taken place.

Connected through internet, the Italian dancer Sarà Eleonora Chiocchini has performed a choreography on the live music played simultaneously by three bands (Efterklang in Denmark, Tenniscoat in Tokyo and a an aborigine choir in Melbourne), three singers (Tanya Tagaq, troat singing, Bae Il Dong, opera, and Carmen Linares, flamenco) and musician and composer Shahzad Ismaily in NewYork. All these artists, connected via streaming, have ben coordinated by director and playwright Christian Lollike in an organic and coordinated unique performance. Audiences in Denmark, Japan, Italy, Australia and USA have enjoyed through big screens this digitally interactive performance.

In Italy this project has been realised with the contribute of MUSE the Science Museum of Trento and we intend to work further using this technology called Immediate (immediate.es.aau.dk) developed by Assoc. Professor Jan Østergaard and Postdoc Jesper H. Sørensen from the Department of Electronic Systems at Aalborg University and develop new ways to connect artists and audiences across the world.