Recumulations

Recumulations
Claudia Hart, 2010/2019

2010/2019, Claudia Hart with a score by Edmund Campion and a live motion-captured performance created by Roberto Sifuentes, single channel version, 10 minutes for off-set multi-projection installation; 2019, 9.5 minutes, edited and reconfigured by Claudia Hart with Meredith Leich, music re-arranged by Edmund Campion 

10 minutes looped or multi-channel site-specific installation using multiple single-channel versions, and 9.5 minute looped single-channel version. 

RECUMULATIONS re-examines possibilities first proposed by Trisha Brown in her systems style of choreography which she made for a real body recorded by video, and now contemporized as a Cyborg body performing within nonlinear digital spaces.

The basis for RECUMULATIONS is the experimental digital-dance animation created by Claudia Hart during her residency at the Ellen Stone Belic Center for the Study of Women and Gender in the Media and Arts in 2010, created in collaboration with Roberto Sifuentes. The initial phase of the project was to re-perform and then interpret Brown's 1971 dance video "Accumulations." The intentionally erratic and spastic, irrational and violent Sifuentes performance was recorded in the motion capture lab of Columbia College, for use as raw data for the creation of a new animated choreography. Sifuentes' male and significantly gendered movements are being combined and recombined to form an irrational "rational" system of movement, inserted into a hybrid avatar digitally designed by Hart. The results are a Cyborg choreography, expressed by a gender and racially fluid being, apparently floating several inches above their wall, dancing by means of a digitally captured motion that accurately expresses gravity yet at the same time uncannily defies it. Recumulations has been collected by the Whitney Museum, NY, and other major collections.