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Δtopia

 by Die Wolke art group

5-6 December 2020: Buffer Fringe performing arts festival, Nicosia, Cyprus.
25 February 2021: Tehran International Electronic Music Festival, Tehran, Iran.
13 June 2021: Soundance Festival, Berlin, Germany.
29 August - 5 September 2021: Burning Man, USA.
16-17 October 2021: Discrete Works 4, Thessaloniki, Greece.
13 November 2021: 6th Open Nights Festival, Larisa, Greece.
29 May 2022: On Bodies 2022 festival - Dance House Lefkosia, Nicosia, Cyprus.
9 June 2022: Art & Science Micro Forum, Flux Laboratory, Athens, Greece.
7 July 2022: Zante Dance Festival, Zakynthos, Greece.
14-18 September 2022: TANZAHOi, Hamburg, Germany.
1 October 2022: Beyond Expo at Goethe Institut‘s Metalogues booth, Helexpo, Thessaloniki, Greece.
21 April 2023: Stream: synergy meeting vol.3, for the Open Theatre City Stage by the Municipality of Thessaloniki.
Δtopia: the place, or topos, where differences, deviations, displacements, rates of change, and distances between other places reside. “Δ”, in mathematics, is referred to as the difference operator.
Δtopia

The principle of displacement was discovered by Archimedes in antiquity, where the submersion of objects in a container filled with water would cause the level to rise, thus providing a way to measure their volume. Before that discovery, the shape of all but the simplest real-world objects was simply a form, a strictly qualitative set of characteristics. The principle allowed something measurable to be said about the object, thus allowing a determination of certain attributes, like density and material.

Philosophy and aesthetics have made great strides since that era, but the principe still holds on many levels: the topos (or place) of a creative act is an important contextual reference, whether it refers to actual geography, the sense of place, or even abstractions, and can be used in the sense of origin or destination, memory or imagination, evocation of experience, and more.

Δtopia (pronounced “Delta-topia”) is a contemporary dance and sonic arts performance that uses sensor interfaces to facilitate the electronic interaction between movement and sound, by measuring certain attributes of motion in realtime. The sonic material originates from interviews of artists of different backgrounds, focusing on questions on the topics of displacement, place, and distance. On stage, the motion data is used to modulate, resequence, or otherwise distort them. The resulting displacements, perceived on a semantic (textual) and aural level simutaneously, create the tensions, densities, and perceptual abstractions, around which a time-based performance piece is constructed that takes no specific thematic position at all: it is the result of the ebbs and flows of information through its process.

Choreography/performance:
Drosia Triantaki

Music, Interactive systems:
Dani Joss

Electonics:
Ioannis Perisoratis

Music:
Alfonso De Grandis

Interview voices:
Dimitri Papageorgiou, Maria Louvari, Harry Elektron, Dimitris Dalezis, Evi Tzortzi, Aliki Dourmazer

3D print design:
Ioanna Symeonidou

Costume modifications:
Aliki Iosafat

Camera:
Eleni Chrysomalli, Giorgos Alexakis, Aliki Iosafat

Duration: 16 minutes

Commission/premiere:

Coho

Media sponsors:

Beater