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+++The offset for our project is the tradition of performative storytelling on the Phad, a large scale cloth painting on which scenes for an epic ballad are sequentially highlighted with an oil lamp in the progression of the story being told.

REVELATION AND SEQUENTIALITY

+++TThe process of working with light as a device to reveal imagery can be related to the series of frames of the moving film, as also to one of its predecessors - the Laterna Magica. The sequential revelation of imagery that add up to a narrative, includes the Indian Kaavad, a crafted assembly of wooden panels set on hinges, which serves a similar function as the Phad. In the Kaavad, the storyteller opens and closes the wooden panels on their hinges for the sequential unfolding and revealing of new scenes through imagery painted on the wooden panels. Another medium of storytelling where the story unfolds through a series of images in panels is that of the comic book.

PROJECTION AND SHAPING

+++Working with the logic of sequential revelation of shapes with focus on the performative act involved in the revealing of the imagery, we crafted a frame that allowed the dynamic opening and closing of panels revealing shapes and occluded objects on the overhead projector. We choose to work with the overhead projector as it allows for a performative and spatial revelation of the space between the object in the spotlight and the projected shadow of the object.

+++We self-crafted layers of frames to create fragments and hints of a story or possible compositional relations between the revealed objects. The layering allows for partial treatment at various levels, like mixing with liquid, light and color effects, which serve as dynamic effects.

LOOPS THAT COMPOSE

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This project has been presented as performances at:

RYK-IND event at Overgaden, Institute for Contemporary Art in Copenhagen (May 2009)

OHPen festival in Malmö (May 2009)

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Collaborators:

Rune Sochting,
http://www.vaesen.dk

Zeenath Hasan, media artist
http://www.zeeniac.net

The
Storyteller's
Device