On Monday February 22, 2016, at 20:00 ResidenceSEA presents two artists from Estonia: Nele Suisalu (dancer and vocal artist) and Maarja Tõnisson (dancer and performance artist). They call themselves hackers of the human body-voice-mind.
The working title for their collaboration is Affectspace. Quoting the artists:
“Affectspace is a performative work relying on two-voiced and two-bodied hybrid entity aiming to create a multi-sensorial space for the spectator/experience or to take place in. Considering movement/sound to be a trigger of the a ffective reaction process within each and every audience member. Voice as a body part. Dance as vibrations in the body. We are interested in research-oriented and curiosity-based art: our final forms are defined by experimenting with the chosen materials and feeding them on feedback. We are focusing on opening up and entering into subject-matters as phenomena to be discovered and made perceptible. The meaning-making lies in trying to connect with audience and to absorb it into the present moment and experience. We consider movement/sound to be a sensory a ffective process within each and every audience member. ”
* ResidenceSEA – Sensing your Environment through Art – is a residence for artists, organized by artists, which aims to bring artists and researchers to Heraklion, to dive into a creative and collaborative process with the environment and the community. ResidenceSEA aims to be a place for artists, researches, hackers and all creative people of the community to collaborate and exchange ideas, to experiment and create hybrid art works between art, science and technology. (Read more on the official website)