MANIPULATOR
Digital Concept, Image Manipulation, Costumes:
Marita Liulia (Finland)
Composition, Accordion:
Kimmo Pohjonen (Finland)
Choreography, Dance:
Aki Suzuki (Japan)
Premiere: January 2002, ARS 01, KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Finland.
Performed also in Sweden and Belgium.
ABOUT MANIPULATOR
Manipulator is an unusual combination of concert, dance, and exhibition. The performance brings the idea of sampling from music to visual arts and dance.
The performance takes place simultaneusly in three contexts: on stage, as live web broadcast, and as a massive projection in public space.
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COMBINING TRADITIONAL ART FORMS WITH NEW TECHNOLOGY
The artists share a common interest in mixing traditional art forms (dance, visuals, music) and new technology. All of them are very experienced in this rather young art form; Liulia made her first telematic works between two countries already in 1991.
Manipulator is a performance where artists create manipulations and are themselves objects of manipulation. It's often difficult to recognize the thin line between real and artificial in the music, the movements, and the images. Everything is sampled in real time.
With the computer's assistance, Suzuki's wish of the dancers movements continuing beoynd the limits of the human body will come true. Aki and Pohjonen are visual objects of Liulia, who digitally manipulates their images in front of the audience.
The possibilities of manipulation are made visible: it is fascinating and scary at the same time. It makes us wonder about the media and moral. Where are the limits, and who controls them? Manipulator's media strategy is not future any more. It's reality behind the screen.
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