About
Pleasure of Experience is a performative installation that includes the project website www.imaperformer.com as its central point. Whereas the installation itself is more of a studio than an actual installation, the piece can only come to life through the interactions of its spectators during exhibitions. The installation can be understood as a performance booth, where visitors are at liberty whether or not to comment on the input they're given by performing a response. Whenever data is uploaded the project website changes and is therefore constantly transforming when exhibited.
The videos shown at www.imaperformer.com are all performances of visitors to the exhibition.
General
The installation presents itself as a closed room and should be entered alone. In this alleged privacy the spectator is greeted at the computer terminal by Boris and Brigitte. The two present themselves as tutors for Body-Art, a specific form of Performance-Art. The spectator gets to choose one of the tutors and is prepared for his performance experience step by step.
As the actual tutorial starts, the room gets lit and the performer is invited to stand into the light. Via a webcam directed at him, the supposed performer now sees himself in a composed image with his tutor's profile on a projection against the wall at the back of the room. This leaves a space of 3 on 3 meters to perform for the spectator. The two tutorials both point out important aspects of Body-Art, which have suprisingly much in common with ordinary lifestyle tutorials - e.g. for Yoga and Aerobics - such as can be found all over YouTube.
After the tutorial is over, the lights go out and the spectator is invited to go back to the terminal, where he can choose if he wants to publish the captured frames of his performance together with the tutorial as a video (no audio) on www.imaperformer.com. After he made his decision the spectator is thanked and dismissed.
Credits
Performance: Brigitte Dätwyler/ Boris Brüderlin
Programming: Johnny Nia http://www.okast.ch
Graphics: Yves Zumstein http://www.47nord.ch
More
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The source code of the application, the cron scripts and the Drupal module can be found on GitHub.
Documentary film of the installation
filmed at Swiss Art Awards
Basel 2011
Pleasure of Experience is an art-installation that works as a performance booth, where the spectators can perform a tutorial about body-art. Two options are given: Perform with Brigitte and go towards exhaustion or go with Boris and try to enter a state of meditation.
After the tutorial the spectators can choose if they want to publish their performance on www.imaperformer.com
check out the performances:
www.imaperformer.com
more about this project:
www.brigittedaetwyler.ch/mixed_media/pleasure_experience
Filming/Editing: http://www.kaufmann-gehring.ch
Performer: http://www.carolastutz.com
Instructors: Brigitte Dätwyler / Boris Brüderlin
Programming: http://www.okast.ch
Graphic Design: http://www.47nord.ch
© Brigitte Dätwyler 2011