design: BIRO
project team: saša košuta, mario kralj, dora lončarić
associates: Jasna Čižmek Tarbuk (choreography), students of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing under the mentorship of prof. Sven Lončarić, PhD (interactive design)
photography: BIRO archive
location: Zagreb Dance Center (ZPC), Ilica 10, Zagreb
status: performance of play
project year: 2015
The play introduces us to the world of virtual reality, enticing us to play with its interactive character. In some interactive fragments of the play, audience members are invited to take part in it, affecting the tempo and course of the play with their choices. The set design comprises tulle sheets onto which interactive visual effects are projected. The effects are designed to react to the movement of the dancers' bodies.
The audience can simultaneously follow the performance of the dancer, the main projection, which interacts with the dancer, as well as two back-projections. The transparency of the tulle transmits the visual effects to the very edges of the Black Hall of the Zagreb Dance Center, erasing the boundary of the projection surface: it multiplies, flickers and disappears. The audience and dancers are faced in a space whose exact physical dimensions are impossible to read; a space that depends on movement.
Each performance, and with it the space of the performance, is unique and one of a kind. In addition to the tulle sheets, the space of the performance is constructed by the movement of the dancers, the projection of interactive graphics, and the repetition and multiplication of the projections, and is in this sense (un)real.