Performance ‘Out of Body Expeirence’

Idea authors, project developers, performers: Yevhenii Arlov, Anna Ivchenko, Max Nykyforiv, Oleksandr Reznikov, Oleksandr Sirous, Igor Sokolov, Dmytro Tentiuk, Mykhailo Vybodovskyi (also worked on the idea: Yevhenii Svystun, Taira Umarova)
 
Performance curated by Lera Polianskova, Max Robotov and Ivan Svitlychnyi
 

 
At present, because of coronavirus pandemic, the students of Photinus School in Ukraine work online in cooperation with their teachers. As a result, the virtual performance environment project appeared.
 
This multistage project is a web environment based on Shukhliada*. In order to keep contact with one another and continue artistic activities together, students and teachers created an online space for performative collaboration where everyone becomes a part of a single “body” / collective character that takes variety of forms in accordance with environment and tasks. The plot of the first performance Out of body experience is a journey of that collective character to the sea.
 
The project will be processed thanks to the algorithm that provides interconnection between certain physical actions or sequence of performers’ actions and virtual objects by which the performers are represented in the web environment.
 
Within the Solidarity and Agency exhibition we present a video based on the initial effects of the project which is still on the stage of its ongoing realization. After the implementation of the performance  https://photinus.shukhliada.com/ – the project will be presented on that website in the form of video documentation.
 
 
* The platform for independent curatorial projects implemented on the Internet founded by Lera Polianskova, Max Robotov and Ivan Svitlychnyi in 2013.
 
shukhliada.com