SHORT DESCRIPTION
Water Organoids is a live cinema performance using an “immersive microscope” to film and project an invisible and counter-intuitive reality of self-organizing water structures. Visual Physics experiments are performed alongside improvising musicians in front of the audience, as a puppetry of an emerging, primitive form of life. With custom technologies, it explores poetic narratives with real world materials that force performers to react to unplanned events that are unique to each performance.
LONG DESCRIPTION
Water Organoids is a live cinema performance using an “immersive microscope” to film and project an invisible and counter-intuitive reality of self-organizing water structures. It challenges its audience’s perception of the most experienced and vital material on earth, yet perhaps the most disregarded by unsustainable development. Visual Physics experiments are performed alongside improvising musicians, as a puppetry of an emerging, primitive form of life. Patterns in motion emerges from fluids and grains that are manipulated in front of the audience, and brought to its eyes in large scale projections. In this process, the emergence of artistic and natural forms are indiscernible and unique to each performance: rather than controlling each steps in the creation of a piece, actions are curated during ongoing natural processes. We develop our medium around custom technologies such as a robotic traveling system for slow camera motions, a lighting and actuation system, with a live control interface.