|
|
Ghosts in the Machine
Premiere of Billy Cowie's 3-D film installation
Preview: 01 May 09
Exhibition: 02 - 31 May 09, Wed-Sun, 12-6pm
Artist Talk: Saturday 16 May 09, 3pm
At: Lighthouse
Billy Cowie’s new 3-D dance installation, Ghosts in the Machine, was shown for the first time in the Lighthouse Gallery during May 09. It combines highly specialised techniques of stereoscopic filmmaking with inventive dance choreography to create an immersive and unique 3-D experience.
As you stand in front of a white wall, wearing blue and red 3-D glasses, three cheeky young women emerge, solid as life, coming at you.
Jennifer Potter, Rachel Blackman and Victoria Melody dance, sing and joke their way through the twenty-five minute piece. Their topics of discussion range from existentialism to ballpark sex to media studies (though none of them is quite sure which cowboy film Marshall McLuhan was actually in). Hanging over them is the dread knowledge that at the end of the performance they have to do ‘the whole friggin thing all over again’ but somehow it turns out to be more fun than they thought.
The premiere of Ghosts in the Machine is a Lighthouse commission presented in partnership with the HOUSE festival and Wolfework. It was funded by Arts Council England with additional support from the University of Brighton.
Supported by SEEDA, Arts Council England and Brighton and Hove City Council as part of the Festivals Clusters initiative: Festivals in Brighton.
Billy Cowie is an award-winning filmmaker, choreographer, composer and author. The paperback edition of his novel, Passenger (Old Street Publishing), was released this spring.
For more information see www.billycowie.com
Follow the Exhibitions Archive link on the left for information
about past exhibitions. |
|
