ART Habens
Mehdi Farajpour
Well, body and digital technology in my works are completing each. They are not jus put together side by side but they are put inside each other. I do not use technology to fascinate my audience with new sciences,…. I use it as a tool. For example in most of my performances I use video mapping but it always stays very basic. I use it as far as it supports my concept not more. It does not interest me to transform my show into a technological demonstration about a particular software or technology. For example in « ETC, ETC. » that- technologically- is the most sophisticated show I have ever done, I still stayed very simple and basic. There I used two video projectors and one camera that was filming on line. One of the projectors was projecting the online film and the other projector was projecting the one-line drawing that was happening right there. And dancers were being led by a drawing artist who was drawing in real time. The logic behind it was that ETC, ETC was about Antonin Artaud who was a drawer himself,… I never understood those artists( specially younger ones) who are scarifying their concept( intellectually) just because a certain technology has a technical capacity than what they actually need for their creation. In this case, what is happening is that the artist is adapting his / her concept to the the possibilities of a new technology instead of doing opposite. I mean at the end the show / performance is becoming a demonstration for a certain software( light, video or sound,…).
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