After looking through each other's research notes, it wasn't easy to determine how we would then come up with the final concept. What we learned, though, is that we must trust the process of conceptualizing as it changes and evolves.. even if we feel like we don't know where we're going ...
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We decided to start where we all agree upon - that is, we were all interested in creating a performance / installation piece.
After discussing the topics we explored, we discovered elements of a love/hate relationship, similar to that of a dating or marriage relationship between two human beings. In pursuit of illustrating this.. we envisioned a duet between two dancers.
Male - masculine, robust agent representing technology who is confined at first by the female - presentation of creativity and the "human" side...
The human agent uses technology agent, as humans use technology, as a tool, an extension of herself, to enable her to do actions she cannot perform on her own...
Even though the technology agent is able to perform supernaturally, it is the human who empowers him. She is ultimately the creativity, the intelligence, the mind, the source behind his actions...
The more she 'uses' him, the more she becomes attached to abilities that technology is able to give her ...
Eventually, via her invitations, he is slowly integrated into her identity, becoming fully present in her world ...
A synchronized duet begins between the two - a chaos, a mixture of the sides ...
Is there a point of reconciliation? .. this is determined by the audience.
