Interactive installation, 2011
Camera, infrared projector, video projector, computer – variable dimensions.
Facing the spectator in an unlit room a video projection acts at first sight like a mirror. The visitor’s silhouette is reflected in blurred white on a black background. However, by projecting the silhouette from a different angle it creates at once a discrepancy and tension in the visitor’s perception.
After some seconds there appears on the screen a slow-moving blurred shadow sliding through space: the silhouette of the visitor himself, out of sync with real time and in slow motion. The perception of his own presence is caught up in this triple combination of a gap in space, a slowing down of movement and the resulting gap in time.
Akin to the worlds of both Peter Campus and Hideo Nakata, Limbo leads the spectator from an expected specular reflection of himself into paradoxically chasing after his own past shadow.
Limbo was first created and shown at the choreographic production Entrelacs by Lionel Hoche (Centre des Arts d’Enghien et Centre national de la Danse, 2010 et 2011), with the support of the Dicréam. In connection with: Reanimation, FeedbackroomOpen Source.
