Three video, audio and lighting artist, Susanna Brenner, Helle Lyshøj and Minna Tiikkainen, together create a ‘choreography for light’. It is a performance without performers, an installation without dancers. In AFTERIMAGE, light video and sound are the key players, and together they create movement. AFTERIMAGE can be visited for free from 2 until July 10 2018 in the Salon (entire day) and the Koninklijke Foyer (only around performances) of the Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam.
AFTERIMAGE is a installation-performance that asks what today’s choreography could be by creating movement in space with the means of light and sound. The absence of a physical body makes this work unique; it becomes a Choreography for Light. AFTERIMAGE forms a space where you are surrounded by movement of light and sounds. Abstract forms like circles and lines help to concentrate on spatiality whilst denying narrative significations of images and their meaning. Space is moved in different ways – horizontal, vertical, zooming in and out. Video projections and lights are brought into a dialogue while the soundscape becomes the third agent connecting light and darkness proposing a multitude of possible readings.
AFTERIMAGE is an ongoing collaboration between the three visual artists who share a history in performing arts. Minna Tiikkainen made many light designs for Nicole Beutler. She created the light design for 1: SONGS, 3: THE GARDEN, 4: STILL LIFE and 5: ECHO. She will also be collaboration on the upcoming production 8: METAMORPHOSES (working title). Susanna Brenner and Helle Lyshøj created video works for Nicole Beutler productions 1: SONGS and 5: ECHO under the name Videomachas.