Portal: Word of Awe, 2001
Video & Interactive Website
Portal is an interactive net.dance created for the meta-project World of Awe. It follows a traveler passing through a portal that opens on 6th street in Manhattan to a parallel world called the Sunset/Sunrise. The work touches on the spatial and aesthetic relationship between virtual and physical spaces, as well as the relationship between user and digital content.
Co-creator & collaborator: Yael Kanarek
Choreographed & Performed by: Evann Siebens
Music: Yoav Gal
Performed by Sarah Rivkin
Video is 2 minutes long
RELATED LINKS
– net.dance on Turbulence.org
– Turbulence Interview with Helen Thorington
– Description on Yael Kanarek’s Site World of Awe
Cinematic and kinetic, the traveler uses dance as her main mode of communication and means to travel between worlds. This ambiguity between the real and unreal is reflected in the work: analogue footage is mixed with digital resolutions as the figure moves from a New York City street to a square “womb” to a digitally created desert landscape. Traditional dance film techniques, as seen in kinesthetic editing and image creation are combined with interactive techniques and screen design.
Portal is a collaboration between media artist Yael Kanarek and dance filmmaker/choreographer Evann Siebens, with music by composer Yoav Gal and programming by Meeyoung Kim. It is a 2003 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., for Turbulence.org with a grant from the Greenwall Foundation.
FESITVALS + EXHIBITIONS
MAXXI / Rome’s National Museum of XXI Century Arts
NetSpace: Journey into Net Art
December 2007
Rome, Italy
EYEBEAM
Performance & Screening
New York, USA
September 2006
BIT BY BIT, CELL BY CELL
Music CD Released by Innova
September 2006
THE DRAWING CENTER
River to River Festival
New York, USA
September 2005
NETIZENS II / New Media Exhibition
Rome, Italy
December 2004
FILE:04 / New Media Festival
Sao Paulo, Brazil
November – December 2004
First Prize
CYNETart_04 INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL FUR MEDIAKUNST
Dresden, Germany
November 2004
VIDEO ZONE BIENNIAL
Tel Aviv, Israel
November 2004
NEW FORMS FESTIVAL
Vancouver, Canada.
October 2004
SENEF / Seoul Net & Film Festival
Seoul, Korea
May – September 2004
BITFORMS
Yael Kanarek exhibition
New York, USA
March – April 2004