OPTICON
time between 3D and 2D
"Photography is a new form of hallucination false on the level of perception, true on the level of time." /Roland Barthes/
About desire to keep motion in a still photo.
Site-specific, acrobatic-physical show taking place at the development bath of the Karlín Barracks old swimming pool dissolves the elements of performance, installation and photo exhibition in itself. Camera Lucida of the swimming pool offers many points of view to watch a moving body. The body, that soaked up the smell of photographic developer and fixer, striving to understand its own two-dimensional existence through photographic and choreographic lenses.
The concept is inspired by the book Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes and by the work of the photographer Vojtěch Brtnický.
"What I can name cannot really prick me." /Roland Barthes/
Concept, choreography, performance: Eliska Brtnická
theme: Eliška Brtnická, Vojtěch Brtnický
Sound design: Stanislav Abrahám
Light design: Prokop Vondruška, Vojtěch Brtnický
Graphic design: Ondřej Holba
Production: Iva-Hedvika Zýková
Supported by: The City of Prague, Ministry of Culture ČR, KD Mlejn, o.p.s., CircusNext, Kasárna Karlín
site-specific version premiered on the 15. and 16. december 2018
transportable version is in process
