Exhibition // Dancecamera SPACES, 2023
Exhibition 1 - 4 June
In a performative dialogue with a camera, dancers and musicians create their very own new motion patterns.
Their rhythm and the dynamics of emerging soundscapes and image spaces react with the light-sensitive emulsion of the image carrier and concentrate themselves in the form of long time exposure.
The photographic paper shows both a shadowy figurative image of the situation, as well as tracing the movements of the dancers, which become a line drawing.
This image is made possible by a 3D-printed camera construction that is connected to the dancers' limbs.
The dance camera is a further development of past works in which Paul Pape has already dealt with wind movements on photographic paper.
Pape adds a wind-light pendulum to the almost classic idea of a Pencil of Nature, which Henry Fox Talbot used in an early work in the history of photography to turn light itself into the creator of the image, so that the wind, which is itself invisible, leaves traces on the image carrier. In "Dancecamera Spaces", the performers create traces of their movement in space. Standing still means becoming visible, movement means leaving traces.
Concept & Photography: Paul Pape
Construction of Camera: Felix Pape
Costume and Set Design: Agnes Storch Pape
Art Design: Veerle Vervliet
Dance: Maria Werner and Isabel Jakob
Opening hours
Thursday 01.06.
Final rehearsal (open to the public)
Performance, 13:00
Opening hours 13:00 - 15:00
Friday 02.06.
Performance, 17:00
Opening hours 16:00 - 19:00
Saturday 03.06.
Performance, 15:00
Performance, 20:00
Opening hours 15:00 - 21:00
Sunday 04.06.
Performance, 15:00
Opening hours exhibition 13:00 - 17:00
Performance // Dancecamera SPACES, 2023
Performance // 15:00
Dance, music and photography merge live into a performance.
A dancer is connected by strings to a self-designed analogue camera. The dancer's movements are then transferred to the photographic paper with a fibre glass cable.
This creates an image that connects both the dancer in space and her movements through the strings, and even the audience becomes visible in the image.
The resulting photo is developed live in a darkroom. Each image is unique and is influenced differently by music and dance.
The exhibition in the space inter.pbl also shows works and photographs of performances from the last three years.
Concept & Photography: Paul Pape
Construction of Camera: Felix Pape
Costume and Set Design: Agnes Storch Pape
Art Design: Veerle Vervliet
Dance: Maria Werner and Isabel Jakob
Opening hours: 13:00 - 17:00
Performance // Dancecamera SPACES, 2023
Performance // 15:00
Performance // 20:00
Dance, music and photography merge live into a performance.
A dancer is connected by strings to a self-designed analogue camera. The dancer's movements are then transferred to the photographic paper with a fibre glass cable.
This creates an image that connects both the dancer in space and her movements through the strings, and even the audience becomes visible in the image.
The resulting photo is developed live in a darkroom. Each image is unique and is influenced differently by music and dance.
The exhibition in the space inter.pbl also shows works and photographs of performances from the last three years.
Concept & Photography: Paul Pape
Construction of Camera: Felix Pape
Costume and Set Design: Agnes Storch Pape
Art Design: Veerle Vervliet
Dance: Maria Werner and Isabel Jakob
Opening hours: 15:00 - 21:00
Performance // Dancecamera SPACES, 2023
Performance // 17:00
Dance, music and photography merge live into a performance.
A dancer is connected by strings to a self-designed analogue camera. The dancer's movements are then transferred to the photographic paper with a fibre glass cable.
This creates an image that connects both the dancer in space and her movements through the strings, and even the audience becomes visible in the image.
The resulting photo is developed live in a darkroom. Each image is unique and is influenced differently by music and dance.
The exhibition in the space inter.pbl also shows works and photographs of performances from the last three years.
Concept & Photography: Paul Pape
Construction of Camera: Felix Pape
Costume and Set Design: Agnes Storch Pape
Art Design: Veerle Vervliet
Dance: Maria Werner and Isabel Jakob
Opening hours: 16:00 - 19:00
Opening + Performance // Dancecamera SPACES, 2023
Exhibition opening // 13:00 - 15:00
Performance // 13:00
Dance, music and photography merge live into a performance.
A dancer is connected by strings to a self-designed analogue camera. The dancer's movements are then transferred to the photographic paper with a fibre glass cable.
This creates an image that connects both the dancer in space and her movements through the strings, and even the audience becomes visible in the image.
The resulting photo is developed live in a darkroom. Each image is unique and is influenced differently by music and dance.
The exhibition in the space inter.pbl also shows works and photographs of performances from the last three years.
Concept & Photography: Paul Pape
Construction of Camera: Felix Pape
Costume and Set Design: Agnes Storch Pape
Art Design: Veerle Vervliet
Dance: Maria Werner and Isabel Jakob
Opening hours 13:00 - 15:00