EKO (2019-2022)
Audiovisual Performance. LED Wall Display, Surround Sound.
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EKO is a live performance, the third composition in an ongoing body of work staged in the dark. Other works in the series are the installations SOL, 2017, SUB, 2019 and FLUX 2025.
EKO is unfolding in the splendid void of pitch-darkness. Erasing the audience’s perceptual boundaries, the absence of light is interrupted for only fractions of seconds with bursts of micro-animated abstract forms. Returning back to darkness, retinal afterimage impressions unravel within each viewer’s eyes, slowly diminishing and dissolving into nothing until the eventual next eruption of light.
EKO starts with ~15minutes of complete blackout, and an abstract surround sound-scape, something like a slowly gyrating patterned mass.
A waiting game increasingly also for visula stimuli.
Once first light disrupts the dark, a new part the work’s sound-scape attunes to the fragile nature of retinal afterimages. Sound is the constant and diffuses throughout the space with distinctive peaks and infra bass.
EKO is ~40 minutes.
Production Credits:
© Kurt Hentschläger, 2019-22
- Original production residency 2019 courtesy of EMPAC/ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts
- Technical Supervisor Touring: Ing. Alexander Boehmler
- Management: Richard Castelli / Epidemic
- Thanks to: Johannes Goebel, Richard Castelli, Chara Skiadelli, Florence Berthaud, Pierre Laly, Claudia Hart, and everybody at Empac.
Reviews:
EKO at The Theatre, Royal Plymouth
Photos © Kurt Hentschläger
Audiovisual Performance. LED Wall Display, Surround Sound.
EKO is a live performance, the third composition in an ongoing body of work staged in the dark. Other works in the series are the installations SOL, 2017, SUB, 2019 and FLUX 2025.
EKO is unfolding in the splendid void of pitch-darkness. Erasing the audience’s perceptual boundaries, the absence of light is interrupted for only fractions of seconds with bursts of micro-animated abstract forms. Returning back to darkness, retinal afterimage impressions unravel within each viewer’s eyes, slowly diminishing and dissolving into nothing until the eventual next eruption of light.
EKO starts with ~15minutes of complete blackout, and an abstract surround sound-scape, something like a slowly gyrating patterned mass.
A waiting game increasingly also for visula stimuli.
Once first light disrupts the dark, a new part the work’s sound-scape attunes to the fragile nature of retinal afterimages. Sound is the constant and diffuses throughout the space with distinctive peaks and infra bass.
EKO is ~40 minutes.
Production Credits:
© Kurt Hentschläger, 2019-22
- Original production residency 2019 courtesy of EMPAC/ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts
- Technical Supervisor Touring: Ing. Alexander Boehmler
- Management: Richard Castelli / Epidemic
- Thanks to: Johannes Goebel, Richard Castelli, Chara Skiadelli, Florence Berthaud, Pierre Laly, Claudia Hart, and everybody at Empac.
Reviews:
EKO at The Theatre, Royal Plymouth
Photos © Kurt Hentschläger
