//performance_2022
Type: Experimental touring multimedia performance
Role(s): Multimedia design and live operation, 3D content, audio-reactive visuals, show control
Premiere: Bora Bora (Aarhus), 2022
Visual content: 3D performer scans and animation (pre-rendered and live audio-reactive segments) built in TouchDesigner and Blender
Show control: TouchDesigner, networked; Spout used to bring in and composite the second operator's video feed
Live setup: Two visuals operators back to back — show control and generative content (me) / video and lighting (Naia Burucoa)
Sound: Live original score by zack christ
Production: BoraBora & CuntsCollective
Credits:
Karoline Clasen Holland — director
Naia Burucoa — light & video
zack christ — live music (original score)
Tone Haldrup Lorenzen — performer (Baby Pink)
Daniel Paiva de Miranda — performer (Baby Blue)
Overview
AKLL (Amor, Kærlighed, Liebe, Love) is a touring techno-musical by the queer-feminist collective CuntsCollective — a deconstructed rom-com following two cellophane-wrapped lovers, Baby Pink and Baby Blue, through the clichés and contradictions of heteronormative romantic ideals. I designed and ran the live multimedia elements, sharing the visual world back to back with light-and-video artist Naia Burucoa.
Visuals
My side built on 3D scans of the two performers, animated and projected — some segments pre-rendered, others generated live and driven by the music, so the imagery shifted with zack christ's score in real time. Naia handled the analogue layer: video footage and live green-screen manipulation in Resolume.
Setup
We ran the show back to back from separate stations. I handled show control in TouchDesigner, networked across the rig, taking Naia's Resolume output over Spout and compositing it into the projection, while she ran the lighting by hand from her console. Two operators, one cohesive visual world — and since the visuals were partly live and tied to a live score, Naia and I performed them in real time alongside the cast, reading the actors and the music and shaping the imagery as each show unfolded.