Leslie
Raymond: video in performance |
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Nine Questions, 2003 multi-media performance Ann Arbor Film Festival |
The Infinite Moment, 2004 live video accompaniment for performance Gallery 555, Ypsilanti MI |
vjFutureWorkerGirl and Dr. Zizz, 2004 Joint-House Co-op Benefit Ann Arbor, MI |
My
current performance-based activity as vjFutureWorkerGirl began when I felt a need to extend my practice more directly into the social fabric--- in terms of collaborating with other artists as well as responding to the energy of the audience. I use a Videonics MX-1 video mixer to combine video materials on-the-spot, as accompaniment to live music and other performative activity. I approach the projection screen as a stage for moving visual poetry, mixing my own digitally altered recordings with material appropriated from the well of existing moving images. My live video performances have ranged from solo gigs accompanying DJs to fully choreographed works such as the Nine Questions performance, a collaboration with dancers, live musicians, and shadow puppeteers, where we played to an audience of 1,700 people at the Ann Arbor Film Festival. My partner Jason Jay Stevens and I perform together as “Potter-Belmar Labs,” creating improvised cinematic events with live mixes of video and audio. This work examines of the art of storytelling. As we disassemble the traditional components of narrative, our current focus is on characters and settings. o |