CORE (2012)
Audio-visual Installation. 5 Channel Video, each with 5-channel Sound.
Audio-visual Installation. 5 Channel Video, each with 5-channel Sound.
CORE is an expansive installation for five independent, yet interlinked groups of 3D-animated
humanoid bodies, each populating an artificial void space. Without ever tiring, the discrete
groups of bodies spread and gather, in eternal commotion. Each body manifests a discrete
sound voice, all of which together create the drone-like sound-scape of the work.
While CORE is an audiovisual composition, with a dramaturgical arc over time, in the moment
body movements are created generatively, based on a computer process mimicking real world
laws of physics. Within set limits, unpredictable behavior informs body motion and sound, thus
the work feels organic and "alive", along a recognizable structure but never quite repeating,
without obvious beginning or end.
CORE was commissioned as part of the London 2012 Festival / the Cultural Program of the
London, UK Summer Olympics 2012, for inside a historic machine hall in Ironbridge - the
birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.
CORE is part of Kurt Hentschläger's "re-animated" body of work, including CLUSTER
(2009-2012), HIVE (2011) and MATTER (2012).
Reviews:
+Sentiment and Experiment
+Audience Comments