‚A live performance which brings Video art, performance and sculptures to another level… A rotating sculpture, a hologram and at the same time a sound body which is awakened to an ecstatic life…‘
(Jury Statement Videomedeja Festival)
In ROTOЯ – SONIC BODY , Peter Kutin (concept, composition, live electronics) joins forces with Patrik Lechner (live video projections /mapping) and Mathias Lenz (mechatronics) to realise a kinetic Audio-Video-Light-Sculpture live performance. Building upon the foundational parameters of Kutin’s kinetic object TORSO#1 from 2018 (Winner of the golden Nica at Ars Electronic Festival) ROTOЯ intensifies the acceleration on the interdependency of sound, image, light, and object. The piece literally propels the rotating sound-sculpture to stages where it transcends into a hologram-like sonic body, a kinetic performer that navigates through unpredictable heterochronic states and manifests as seductive multimedia polyrhythm.
… the sculpture fans out into geometric forms, bunches into images of a diffused reality. Due to the constant acceleration, it’s no longer possible to perceive the movement in detail, but instead, lines, colors, surfaces, and sounds rush past us…. In the cyclical movement, image and sound conspire and work towards a dizzying and unreal three-dimensionality, a play of visibility and invisibility, actuality and virtuality, visual abstraction and acoustic affect… ROTOЯ confronts the fundamental categories of movement, time, and space … (Shilla Strelka)
ROTOЯ – SONIC BODY received the International-Jury-Award for best work at the 27th Videomedeja Festival in Novi Sad 2023;
It was / will be shown at numerous Festivals and also as a Full-Dome version at SAT Montreal
Selection :
* UT Connewitz / Leipzig (2021), Crossroads Festival / Mozarteum – Salzburg (2021) , Heart of noise Festival / Innsbruck (2021) , Filmfestival Santiago de Compostella (2021) , Impulstanz Festival / MUMOK Vienna (2021) , Spider – Festival of radical Bodies / Ljubljana (2021) , VIS Filmfestival / Vienna (2021) , Mind over Matter – Exhibition / Dresden-Contemporary (2021) , Ann Arbor Film Festival / U.S.A (2020) , Kunstraum Kesselhaus Bamberg / FK:K IV Festival (2020) , Sonica-Festival / Ljubljana (2020) , Musikprotokoll / Steirischer Herbst, Graz (2020) , Mutek Montreal / SAT FullDome (2020 & 2022) , EMAP networking conference / Kontejner – Zagreb (2022) , Halle G Museumsquartier, Vienna, Wroclav Biennale for Media Arts (PL) , GNRation Braga (PT), Videomedeja Festival Novi Sad, Hexagon Meylan (FR), Cave12 Geneva, ….further dates TBA.
A cinematic version (14 minutes, HD, 5.1 sound) is distributed by Sixpack-Film. The project has been kindly supported by the Vienna’s cultural department / MA7 Musik.
Images © by Peter Mayr / Martin Gross / SAT Montreal / Huga Salsa for Gnration
