shh aah ohh} PROJECT BRIEF – First Prototype
initial concept for the ShadowDancer, which preceded the Trickster concept that Rea and I hatched by about 3 weeks, but still seems to capture some of that energy we liked... NAL, watercolour
Title:
shh aah ohh
Project Form:
A participant-driven multi-channel audio-visual art installation
Artists:
Rea McNamara B.F.A. and Nicholas A. Longstaff A.O.C.A.D.
Short Description:
shh aah ohh is a participant-driven art installation in which a shadow is more than a place without light, and a sound or a movement carries more meaning than a sentence.
The work emerges from the folkloric character of the Trickster, whose many names and forms tell us that s/he is very much alive today, but no longer as a raven, fox, snake or god – Trickster now lives inside each one of us!
The installation uses digital projections and shadow screens, with delightful 3D sound-paintings created in collaboration with renowned sound poets Lillian Allen, a.rawlings and Rob Read. The resulting environment inspires participants to seek, discover, dance with and defy each other as the increasingly complex rules of the Trickster’s realm take effect upon their silhouettes.