09/12/2024
Snippet of my work for DANCE MACHINE at and a video of the dance performance by .007
DANCE MACHINE curated by .golin presents a series of works responding to the sweeping dance moves of .007. In collaboration with video artist , Dyke’s dance moves have been recorded using motion capture technology. From these recordings, the dance has been abstracted into various images of ribboning lines, each depicting four seconds of Dyke’s movement. Fifteen local artists, designers and furniture makers received a specific timestamp of the dance and responded to it in their chosen medium.
This exhibition creates a map of the body in motion, a reinterpretation of distilled movements into objects, paintings, and drawings. Each response is an act of translation, of trying to make sense of a moment, channeling the frenetic energy of Dyke’s movement into acts of pinching, painting, carving, bending and throwing. Each artwork is not an attempt to retrace the steps of the dance, rather an opportunity to re-interpret it, to extend it into new forms, and get into the groove of Christopher Dyke’s rhythms.
The grid on the page is a dance floor, hovering behind the artworks, laying low within the original images given to each artist like a stage, providing a sense of place for Dyke’s movements. Like the grid, all of these experiments in movement share an underlying desire to fix a moment, to transform the instantaneous into something more permanent. And yet, what we capture is always an interpretation. To reproduce a movement alters the meaning of that moment. In capturing four seconds of Dyke’s dancing, we don’t preserve it—we move alongside it in a new way, one that is filtered through the gestures of another.
In Household Gallery, each slice of Christopher Dyke’s dance has now found its way back together. A single minute has been extended into hours of labour and reflection, distilled into a range of artworks that move with and against each other; there is no repetition like a chorus line, instead it’s a house party.
Showing now until 22 December 2024 at
