Interview for INTERNATIONAL SCREENDANCE FESTIVAL

'MOVIMIENTO EN MOVIMIENTO' - Mexico City

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Filmed via long distance computer call: SKYPE.
more info about the festival and project: LINK

excerpts of  CPA [Consistent Partial Attention]

Audio / video / performance:

Freya Bjorg Olafson

Duration: 10m32s

Format available: Digital File

December 2017

Performance for web camera / video documentation of a web performance
 

This video returns the 60-minute stage work CPA [Consistent Partial Attention] to the internet, in a condensed version broadcast from Olafson’s studio in Winnipeg over Skype. CPA is an exercise in ‘nowness’; the performer engages in the act of real-time translation of data / movement vocabulary from a video score of dances that were found on youtube. In CPA we experience dance as a vernacular, learned language, permeating and crossing communities, provoking consideration upon the evolution of dance in the age of the internet.

The development of this work was generously supported by the Canada Council for The Arts, Manitoba Arts Council, The Winnipeg Arts Council and Video Pool Media Arts Center.

Contact Freya for the password to view the full 10 min work online

Distributed by:  VIDEO POOL MEDIA ARTS CENTER

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Screening History

2020     SIGGRAPH 2020 - online exhibition 'DIGITAL POWER: Activism, Advocacy, and the Influence of Women Online'                            available online in early July, just prior to in Washington D.C., at: power.siggraph.org - curated by                        Kathy Rae Huffman

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2019     Incubator - York University Department of Dance - installation of video documentation - Toronto

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2018     INTERNATIONAL SCREENDANCE FESTIVAL / 'MOVIMIENTO EN MOVIMIENTO' - Mexico City

2017    7a*md8 - Live Stream at Trinity Square Video - Curated by Golboo Amani and Francisco-Fernando Granados /                        Assistant  Curator: Shalon Webber-Heffernan -Toronto, Canada 

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