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Reacting Space for Dividual Behavior

Yoko ANDO

  • 2011
  • Installation
  • Commissioned by YCAM
  • World Premiere
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Exploring rules for liberating body movements

In this installation, Yoko Ando created a setting that allows any visitor to experience the methods of conception/perception/communication in body expression she has cultivated during her career to date.

The venue is divided into three differently sized stages ("Answers & Questions", "Space & Distance" and "Physical Line"), each of which is fitted with multiple video cameras, monitors and sensors. Arranged around these are various virtual objects that maintain interactive relationships. There is no predefined way or method of experiencing the work, which allows the visitor to move freely within the exhibition space, discover the work's mechanisms, and derive his/her own rules of movement.

Video cameras and monitors

Ten video cameras set up in the exhibition space capture various parts of the scenery from various angles. The recorded images are then projected onto 23 monitors installed inside the exhibition space as well. On some of the monitors the images appear in real-time like in mirrors, on others they are delayed by a few seconds. Via these monitors, the visitor can further deepen his/her reflection on body movements.

Answers & Questions

Two 3D cameras installed on a stage measuring 3.6 x 3.6 meters detect positional information of objects inside that space. The scenery on stage is thus scanned in real-time, and superimposed with a computer-generated virtual space.Images of this virtual space are projected onto a monitor installed near the stage, on which visitors can verify the current state of the virtual space, as well as the positions of their own bodies within that space. Cube-shaped objects floating in the virtual space change their colors when in contact with a visitor's body, accompanied by all kinds of sounds.

Space & Distance

While working with the same system used in "Answers & Questions", this stage measuring 2.7 x 2.7 meters is not equipped with any screens for monitoring the relationship between imaginary and real space. Therefore the visitor can only rely on occasionally audible sounds to evaluate his/her own positional relationship with the objects floating around in the virtual space. Most of the video cameras set up inside the exhibition space are pointed at this stage.

Physical Line

A 3D camera set up on a 1.8 x 1.8 meter stage captures the visitor's silhouette, whereupon the trajectories of the moving tips of his/her right hand and left foot are projected onto a large screen installed in front of the stage.

Projects

Reactor for Awareness in Motion (RAM)

Finished

2010 — 2015

Profiles

Yoko ANDO

Dancer

Ando embarked on a career as a dancer after meeting Kuniko Kisanuki in 1989, and appeared in numerous dance performances choreographed by Akira Kasai and Kota Yamazaki among others. While choreographing and performing her own solo pieces since 1997, Ando also starred in Hideki Noda's pieces with NODA.MAP, an opera with Robert Lepage and conductor Seiji Ozawa, and Ryuichi Sakamoto's opera "LIFE". In 2001, she was discovered by William Forsythe and joined the Ballett Frankfurt. Having performed 36 different pieces with the Forsythe, Ando now enjoys a worldwide reputation as a leading dancer and central member of The Forsythe Company. In Japan, she continues to work on her own projects while collaborating with other dance companies as a guest performer or choreographer.

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Credit

Concept, Direction & Dance: Yoko Ando

Technical Direction: Richi Owaki *, Takayuki Ito *
Programming Direction: Takayuki Ito *
Visual Programming: Satoru Higa
Sound Design: Masashi Heirakuji (G-RECORD Inc.)

Spatial Design: Richi Owaki *, Takuro Iwata *
Construction: Takuro Iwata *, Mitsuo Uno *
Video: Richi Owaki *, Soichiro Mihara *
Sound: Etsuko Nishimura *
Lighting: Fumie Takahara *
Technical Cooperation: Yanobutai

Tutorial Video Filming & Editing: Richi Owaki *
Tutorial Video Special Appearance:Takuro Iwata *, Naomi Kakuda *, Satoshi Hama *, Asako Yamahara

Graphic Design: Shin Akiyama
Signage Design: Naomi Kakuda *
Educational Program : Daiya Aida *, Rie Okada *, Kiyoshi Suganuma *
Documentation: Ryuichi Maruo *, Tomoya Watanabe *
Public Relations: Fumi Hirota *
Coordination: Akiko Takeshita *, Naoko Shiomi *

Assistant Curation: Rina Watanabe *
Curation: Kazunao Abe *

*...YCAM Interlab

Exhibition

Yoko Ando New Installation Exhibition

Reacting Space for Dividual Behavior

Finished

Saturday, May 28 — Sunday, August 21, 2011

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Installation

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Yoko ANDO's works

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Works of 2011

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