• Veinpict_009 Veinpict_013
  • Epiderm_mn0013k Dscn7147k
  • Dscn7089k Epiderm_mr_0056d
  • Epiderm_visu_hr_1_flat Epiderm_mr_0013
  • V2_xtrakts__0 V2_xtrakts__0
  • V2_xtrakts__0 Hrgellyh6a

THE EPIDERM  PERFORMANCE CREATES AN IMMERSIVE ENVIRONMENT AND IS A VEHICLE FOR SKOLTZ_KOLGEN’S EXPERIMENTATIONS IN THE CORRELATION BETWEEN IMAGE AND SOUND. THE PIECE ALSO QUESTIONS THE WAY AUDIENCES HAVE TRADITIONAL RELATED TO THIS SORT OF PERFORMANCE: SPECTATORS ARE INVITED TO LIE ON THEIR BACKS, HEADS RESTING ON CUSHIONS, FROM WHERE THEY CAN CONTEMPLATE THE GIANT CIRCULAR SCREEN HANGING FROM THE CEILING. SPECTATORS’ HORIZONTAL POSITION AND THE 5.1 SURROUND SOUND PROVIDE OPTIMAL CONDITIONS FOR THE PERCEPTION OF BOTH SOUND AND IMAGE, ACCENTUATING THE FORCE OF ATTRACTION AND REPULSION AMONG ATOMS AND IMMERSING USERS DEEP WITHIN THE NANOWORLD. IN THIS WORLD OF THE INFINITELY SMALL, IF A HUMAN STOOD ONE NANOMETRE TALL, A RED BLOOD CELL WOULD APPEAR TO BE 1,759 STORIES HIGH.