Homo Rotatus

Interactive installation

A project by DAMA09 (Violeta Pavlova, Evgenia Sarbeva, Martin Petrov, Yulian Nevenov) – first-year students at the Academy, Digital Arts Master’s Programme. The installation is a result of a course work (The actor as an object, the object as an actor), assigned by Venelin Shurelov. Through theoretical and practical studies, the installation examines the interaction between human body and object, construction and projection, installation and action, in the border zone between the visual and performance arts. In this process, we use breath, separated from the human body, intensify it through electromechanical processes and use it as an element of the environment. With their breath, the visitors animate the dummy’s body.

1. Интерактивна инсталация

Проект на DAMA09 (Виолета Павлова, Евгения Сърбева, Мартин Петров, Юлиан Невенов) – студенти от 1-ви курс Магистърска програма за Дигитални изкуства. Инсталацията е резултат от семестриална задача (Актьорът като предмет, предметът като актьор) водена от Венелин Шурелов, в която чрез теоретични и практически занимания се изследва критиката и взаимодействието между човешко тяло и предмет, конструкция и проекция, инсталация и акция, в граничната зона между визуалните и изпълнителски изкуства. В този проект ние използваме дъха отделен от човешкото тяло и чрез електромеханични процеси го усилваме и употребяваме като елемент от средата, която ни заобикаля. Посетителят анимира с дъха си тялото на манекена.

Working process - 19. 11. 2009

Работен план

Research

Horse rider

Details of the procession like the one of the rider taming the wild, rearing horse echo the common theme of the temple of cosmos over chaos, human over animal. The bulging veins and wild expression of the horse clearly bring out its chaotic nature. The detail makes an interesting comparison to the famous chorus from Sophocles tragedy Antigone:

[332] Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man. [335] This power spans the sea, even when it surges white before the gales of the south-wind, and makes a path under swells that threaten to engulf him. Earth, too, the eldest of the gods, the immortal, the unwearied, [340] he wears away to his own ends, turning the soil with the offspring of horses as the plows weave to and fro year after year. [343] The light-hearted tribe of birds [345] and the clans of wild beasts and the sea-brood of the deep he snares in the meshes of his twisted nets, and he leads them captive, very-skilled man. He masters by his arts [350] the beast who dwells in the wilds and roams the hills. He tames the shaggy-maned horse, putting the yoke upon its neck, and tames the tireless mountain bull. [354] Speech and thought fast as the [355] wind and the moods that give order to a city he has taught himself, and how to flee the arrows of the inhospitable frost under clear skies and the arrows of the storming rain. [360] He has resource for everything. Lacking resource in nothing he strides towards what must come. From Death alone he shall procure no escape, but from baffling diseases he has devised flights. [365] Possessing resourceful skill, a subtlety beyond expectation he moves now to evil, now to good. When he honors the laws of the land and the justice of the gods to which he is bound by oath, [370] his city prospers. But banned from his city is he who, thanks to his rashness, couples with disgrace. Never may he share my home, [375] never think my thoughts, who does these things!

Source - http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/ARTH200/politics/parthenon.html