A collaborator brought up the idea of “Dancing with the past in the future”, we loved this idea as we thought of our project as both a meditative process and a dance – the idea of fusing both concepts was exciting to us and played well with the initial concept. One of our colleagues, Joanna Besarab is a dancer, and we liked the thought of taking a photo of her dancing, manipulating it, and using it as the artwork for the project. Due to lack of resources and scheduling we were unable to take the photo.
After further consideration and brainstorming we decided to use photographs of Dance Halls from the 1950’s. These photos depicted people, shoulder to shoulder, packed in a hall. I loved the aliveness and implications of camaraderie expressed in these photos. We all felt like this perfectly represented the past. We then decided to superimpose a retro futuristic painting depicting a sci-fi space environment – this would represent the future. The talented Rocco Wallis created the artwork, this was the final result.
I felt like their work encapsulated the themes of the idea well, although I would of liked to spend more time experimenting with different techniques.