in collaboration with Genetic Choir, air quality scientist Astrid Manders,
broedplaats GROND, and Plein Theater.
“The average Amsterdammer lives one year less due to air pollution.” (Source: Clean Air for Amsterdam, Municipality of Amsterdam)
Marion Tränkle and Ivo Bol, together with the Genetic Choir, are creating an interactive performance about the impact of air quality in Amsterdam Oost. Measurements of fine particulate matter (PM) on the Mauritskade are used in the live performance as a guideline and threshold—a cause for changes in the performance. The ever changing levels of particulate matter become a decisive factor that alters the singers’ score, the sounds, and the lighting in real time during the show. Critical values are used as dramatic moments, giving the audience insight into the consequences of air pollution: how do we deal with the cumulative effect of all our behaviors (mobility, location), and how can we respond to this collectively as a community?
TNO researcher Astrid Manders will talk about her research at TNO and explain where fine particulate matter comes from.
As the duo NOW, Marion Tränkle and Ivo Bol create performances and light/sound installations inspired by the world around us. The Genetic Choir composes music in the moment. The vocalists train themselves as a musical organism—a small human society that interacts with each other in sound and silence, becoming music.
Light design & programming: Marion Tränkle Sound design: Ivo Bol Music:Genetic Choir Special guest: Astrid Manders
The observer effect is the disturbance of an observed system by the act of observation.
BLACK BOX is a light and sound installation made for the IJsselbiennale 2021. It is inspired by the paradox that is impossible to (just) observe a system without disturbing it. Why and when do we decide to step in, to observe, or to actively interact with a system or environment? The choices we make have consequences and BLACK BOX offers the opportunity to reflect on them.
Artistic team:
Sound design: Ivo Bol
Scenography & light design: Marion Tränkle
Ik werd meegenomen naar een andere wereld waar hersenactiviteit en omgeving aan elkaar worden gekoppeld. De ingenieuze visualisatie is een mysterieuze ervaring: als kijker zie je direct verschillen tussen individuen. Het geluidsontwerp maakt het gehele beeld compleet.
Sabine Wildevuur, WAAG society
(UN)FOCUSSED is a performance with and about the brain. It exposes our differences as individuals and our basic similarities as humans.
The EEG data of two performers are monitored, compared and translated into dynamic movements of lasers, light, and sound. The performative system uses neurofeedback and real-time display of the performers own brain activity as well as external stimuli for the brain. The audience becomes a witness of the performers effort to self-regulate their brain function, while trying to maintain synchronicity with each other. The performance ends with a mental effort of the performers that puts the entire audience in the spotlight.
(UN)FOCUSSED was commissioned by the Amsterdam Brain and Mind Project (ABMP). This UvA‐VUA Amsterdam Academic Alliance Initiative aims to build sustainable bridges between the fields of neuroscientific and cognitive research. NOW was approached for an artist in residence project to develop a work that interprets and adds to the scientific theme of neuroscience and cognition research. (UN)FOCUSSED was performed for 2000 academic researchers during the Amsterdam Neuroscience Kick-off Conference in the Theater Amsterdam. [link]
Artistic team:
EEG analysis and laser design: Alberto Novello
Sound design: Ivo Bol
Scenography & light design: Marion Tränkle
Choreography: Marion Tränkle, Roos van Berkel and Tashi Iwaoka Performers: Roos van Berkel and Tashi Iwaoka
Registration: Eric de Clercq
