Creative Capital

Description

Conceived by composer/performer/choreographer Grisha Coleman, echo::system is a series of imagined environments that can be explored as an installation or observed as a performance. In creating the work, the collaborators (including a biologist, an architect, sound and video designers, and performers) research the dynamic behavior of specific ecosystems, create a physical installation based on real and metaphorical data, and model this information with a computer program that governs events in the physical environment. The performance reveals a myth about the creation of the environment, which the inhabitants of the environment are attempting to rediscover. The myth is based on “natural” biorhythms of the environment as modeled in a computer-based system. In an environment made “live” by custom sensors, performers move within the full sensory landscape, and their interactions become a way to re-examine contemporary urban life.