Instrumentation: improvisational intermedia performance art
Duration: varies
Year: 2022

collaboration with composers Marcel Castro Lima, Conner Simmons and other artists

Program Note:
XOPOΣ (Greek: chorus) was a series of immersive multimedia theater works for improvising shadow theater chamber ensemble and overlapping refracted video projections which provided abstract commentary on the subjects and thematic material of found///lost in transit and facilitated theatrical transitions.

The setup for these works was rather complex and unconventional. The work consisted of three performers hidden behind the center-left screen in the Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater, each improvising on instruments including viola da gamba, celeste, and double bass. Behind the performers were two projectors, each projecting a collage of visual material from the concert. Additionally, three colored light bars were evenly placed behind the screen so that the combination of the light bars and projectors cast dynamic and interspersed shadows on the screen, allowing various materials to come through more clearly depending on the movements of the performers. These projections also passed through the screen, illuminating the opposite side of the theater. Finally, a projector was placed in the balcony of the MEIT and directed into the space surrounding the performance. Emmeri Bock performed this projection by utilizing various translucent materials placed in front of the lens to deflect, diffuse, refract, and obscure the light and images of the projection, transforming a defined image into a more ambient source of light, with the original materials becoming apparent only for a moment between broad swaths of light and color.

More information about this project can be found at foudlostintransit.wordpress.com