Stéphane Gladyszewski

In the frame of Temps d’Images Festival
 

Duration: 55 min
 

Post-show talk with the artists on 16th February - in French with Hungarian translation.
 

At the crossroads of performance, visual arts and digital arts lies Canadian Stéphane Gladyszewski, who seeks to explore the limits of perception, calling on all five senses and playing them against one another in a hurly-burly fashion. Kinetics, sight, touch and hearing overlap and interlock, disturbing each other's boundaries, getting lost in the other's territory, and losing their position in the hierarchy of senses. Each sense can become the inner-outer portion of the other. What is seen is felt; what is heard is seen; image becomes skin. In Side and Aura are the witnesses of this sensorial alchemy in which what we feel is more important than what we rationally understand. The technological tools which come to the aid of the artist - video projections, thermal images on the human body as a screen, acoustic environments - become ways of multiplying sensations and opening up our senses, ways of doing away with tangible reality, making it lose its footing and breaking through to the other side of things and bodies.
 

In Side (2003)
Conception, video, choreography: Stéphane Gladyszewski
Dancers:
(virtuals:) Jason Diggins, Stéphane Gladyszewski
(real:) Elizabeth Emberly, Justin Gionet
Music: Mat Cober, Plastikman
Light: Jean Jauvin
 

Aura (2005)
Conception, video, choreography: Stéphane Gladyszewski
Dancers:
(virtuals:) Katie Ward, Elizabeth Emberly, Emmanuel Proulx
(real:) Elizabeth Emberly, Emmanuel Proulx
Light: Jean Jauvin
Music: Nicolas Basque
Programming: Etienne Grenier
Photography: Stéphane Gladyszewski
 

Supported by:
TDI