Above | Beyond | Outside
part of the HYPER_ series
Video | performance: Freya Olafson
Music: DavÃð Þór Jónsson davidthorjonsson.com/
HD video | 3m30s
Installation or screening
2013
‘Above | Beyond | Outside’ exploits the dimensionality of the physical body, reducing the corps to line. The video attempts to “erase and expose, deny and assert the body” (1) while questioning the nature of the relationship between light and perception. The performers physique is dissected and transformed, disappearing and merging with the screen. Layered and colorful, almost as though animated, the body becomes a dreamscape. ‘Above | Beyond | Outside’ deploys an intriguing combination of body paint and UV lights to create a new corps.
1 - Kendra Ballingall, Critical Response to AVATAR, Mentoring Artist for Women’s Art, 2010.
Screening History:
2016 Canada Dance Festival - Ottawa
2015 Expanse Festival - Edmonton
2015 SummerWorks - Toronto
2014 WNDX - Festival of Moving Image, Winnipeg
2014 16th Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, BC
2014 no_land Festival Audiovisual Itinerante, Brazil
2013 DESTERRO Video Dance Exhibition, Brazil
2012 Adhere & Deny Theatre Company | Circus of Objects, Winnipeg, Manitoba
2011 Video Pool Media Arts Center |Platform Center for Photographic & Digital Arts, Winnipeg
Contact Freya for the password to view the work online
Distributed by: VIDEO POOL MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Available on BLU RAY or digital file
The development of this work was generously supported by the Canada Council for The Arts, Manitoba Arts Council, The Winnipeg Arts Council and Video Pool Media Arts Center. Shot while in residency at EMPAC - Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (Troy, NY)