art.Life

RICHARD SIEGAL I LENBACHHAUS MÜNCHEN I VIDEO INSTALLATION

The video “Japanese Precision Walking”, also known as “Shudan Kodo”, went viral in 2012 and captivated a global audience with its amazing visual effects. It shows a group of 50 athletes walking in perfect unison through a sports hall, moving in continuously changing geometric formations: they split, merge, diverge at high speed, then converge again, intersect and connect. These images, which touch on a complex of social issues of interaction and of the individual and the collective, fired the imagination of choreographer Richard Siegal. In 2022, Siegal and his company Ballet of Difference undertook a three-week research residency at the Nippon Sports University in Yokohama, Japan. There, they learned the strict principles and rules of conduct of precision marching from the athletes of “Shudan Kodo”. The experience gained from this flowed into the piece “Ballet of (Dis)Obedience”, which was created in 2023.
In 2024, Siegal returned to Japan to create the performance “Collective Action” together with 50 athletes and two dancers. Here he focuses on the inner logic of “Shudan Kodo”. It is analogous to the function of the digital - in other words, it generates a constantly new combinatorics from basic formulas. The music is by alva noto, the lighting design by Matthias Singer. A video documentation of “Collective Action” is the main component of the multi-channel video installation “art.Life”, which will premiere at the Lenbachhaus in
May 2025.

PRODUCTION BY MUFFATWERK MÜNCHEN
IN COOPERATION WITH SYNAESTHETICA, YOKOHAMA INTERNATIONAL PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL
AND GOETHE-INSTITUT TOKYO

PRESENTED AT THE LENBACHHAUS MÜNCHEN AS PART OF THE DANCE FESTIVAL MÜNCHEN 2025

NIMMERSATT

MÜNCHNER BIENNALE 2024 I 180° VR Experience I XR Musiktheater in der Alten Utting

“NIMMERSATT” - Making-of

A production by HOCHSCHULE FÜR MUSIK UND THEATER MÜNCHEN

EVE GEORGES & JIRO YOSHIOKA

PREMIERE: June 6, 2024

Composition: Jiro Yoshioka, Eve Georges
Musical Direction: Henri Bonamy, Markus Hein
Direction: Waltraud Lehner, Paulina Platzer
Concept: Alexandra Hermentin, Waltraud Lehner, Paulina Platzer
Ausstattung: Pove Siersch
Digital Dramaturg: Ilja Mirsky
XR Production: Nightfrog GmbH
XR Production management: Bashira Cabbara
XR Camera: Carl Amadeus Hiller
XR Development & Programming: Alexander Schmidt

HOLOGRAPHIC STUDIES

An XR SYSTEM FOR INNOVATIVE PRESENTATIONS : AUDIOVISUALLY IMMERSIVE 3D EXPERIENCE with BIOFEEDBACK

A single user experience with haptic feedback via gloves, as well as a multi user experience (spatial perception of objects), in which contactless interaction with virtual digital exhibition objects is possible in a playful way.

CONCEPT by THOMAS MAHNECKE, www.thomasmahnecke.com VISUALS by TOBIAS BIBER @zufallsgeneriert