CLOUD city collage [2021]

Video trailer for Cloud City Collage [2021]

Cloud City Collage is a visual album of experimental mediamaking using virtual rehearsal processes spanning Europe and the Americas, a choreographic phantasmagoria of images, bodies, sounds, and animals. Set to the improvised saxophone and electronic sound worlds of Kyle Hutchins and Eric Lyon, it merges the poetics of dance, animation, and music into bizarre and chimeric dreamscapes. The visual elements use movement, projected dimensionality, video, and image processing to interpret many layers of frontier spaces - the body as a border and a choreography of skin that divides human beings from one another; the barriers and portals of language and written text as doorways to imagination; the borders between human beings and our environment amidst other species that surround us, from tiny fungi to leaves and branches of rhizomal organisms that spread their roots beyond their initial growth to migratory birds that pass over walls and lines of human maps. Collaged microphotography and imagery taken from the environments of North America, Mexico, and France offer a choreographic journey through the many cultural and biological borders that bind us together.

Music: Kyle Hutchins and Eric Lyon

Visuals: Zach Duer, Renato González, & Scotty Hardwig

Dancers: Renato González & Scotty Hardwig

FULL VISUAL ALBUM

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Track 10

Cloud City Collage was originally premiered virtually at the Solid/Air Festival in 2021.

Support for this project was provided by the bruce carver multicultural arts award at the Virginia tech school of performing arts, the college of liberal arts and human sciences global partnerships grant at virginia tech, and by the Institute for creativity, arts and technology at Virginia tech.

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