Sea Foam
SEA FOAM
2024
Live immersive multimedia performance
“The sea shrinks before dawn. We retreat into daylight. When night rises high, we expand, our borders arrive at the door again, through the door we flow away.”
A dialogue is woven between video work by Lova Ranung, soundscapes & sound performance by Maria Landgren Hilmersson, sculpture and reading by Yan-Bing Wu, and costume design by Agnese Smaldone. Exploring seafoam through its ongoing relationship of converging movements, challenges the various stages of our perceptions.
Sea foam is created by the agitation of seawater. It is churned up by breaking waves in the surf zone near shore; the surfactants in these turbulent conditions trap air and form persistent bubbles sticking together by surface tension. Every transformation requires movement from one state to another. Moving entities are integral parts of life, pulling us towards the invisible, the ever-changing, the unstable, the unprotected and the multifaceted.
A 'sense of change' is essential for survival for any animal. We know the importance of change because we are acutely aware of the emotional responses it evokes in us: anything that moves through time and space also moves through our feelings.
We tend to see and feel more as distance increases, not less, because we replace the physical with thought and feeling. However, transformation happens by collision. Therefore, we become transformed by what touches us. Perhaps, if we can reverse the relationship, distance dissolves. In the basic condition of our understanding, everything that enters consciousness is experienced as a part, and a continuation of the self. The objects merge with our experiences, in body, in memory, in inner anticipation, in the murmur of sound, in the quickening or slowing of pulse and breath. What cannot be changed externally can be brought into dialogue, imagination and words, like the foam carried by the sea.
10th February
Researchlabs 2024 / Eye Filmmuseum / Cinema 2
Amsterdam, Netherlands
2024
Live immersive multimedia performance
“The sea shrinks before dawn. We retreat into daylight. When night rises high, we expand, our borders arrive at the door again, through the door we flow away.”
A dialogue is woven between video work by Lova Ranung, soundscapes & sound performance by Maria Landgren Hilmersson, sculpture and reading by Yan-Bing Wu, and costume design by Agnese Smaldone. Exploring seafoam through its ongoing relationship of converging movements, challenges the various stages of our perceptions.
Sea foam is created by the agitation of seawater. It is churned up by breaking waves in the surf zone near shore; the surfactants in these turbulent conditions trap air and form persistent bubbles sticking together by surface tension. Every transformation requires movement from one state to another. Moving entities are integral parts of life, pulling us towards the invisible, the ever-changing, the unstable, the unprotected and the multifaceted.
A 'sense of change' is essential for survival for any animal. We know the importance of change because we are acutely aware of the emotional responses it evokes in us: anything that moves through time and space also moves through our feelings.
We tend to see and feel more as distance increases, not less, because we replace the physical with thought and feeling. However, transformation happens by collision. Therefore, we become transformed by what touches us. Perhaps, if we can reverse the relationship, distance dissolves. In the basic condition of our understanding, everything that enters consciousness is experienced as a part, and a continuation of the self. The objects merge with our experiences, in body, in memory, in inner anticipation, in the murmur of sound, in the quickening or slowing of pulse and breath. What cannot be changed externally can be brought into dialogue, imagination and words, like the foam carried by the sea.
10th February
Researchlabs 2024 / Eye Filmmuseum / Cinema 2
Amsterdam, Netherlands
