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Dewey Dell

Grave BUDA kunstencentrumKortrijk, BelgiumPremière1st and 2nd December 2011
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01/12/2011
02/12/2011
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Concept

The mathematical beauty of natural forms is immediately evident to everyone: to be able to grasp it, it is sufficient for us to look at a sea shell, at a rolling wave, at a snow flake, at the stars in the night sky.

Likewise, throughout the last century, scientists have produced an impressive body of beautiful mathematics and bold, fascinating ideas that have revolutionised our world-view. The aim of this project is to find ways of conveying this hidden beauty. We shall discover and build analogic vocabulary of visual, kinetic and aural forms, based on the rules of perception that are well known to visual artists, performers, musicians. This universe will not be illustrative, it will not try explain anything. Instead, it will possess its own ontological dignity and its own inner coherence, mirroring that of mathematics. That same deep coherence, that same deep meaningfulness that we perceive in nature. In searching for these universal forms, for these archetypes of perception, our approach will be synaesthetic, and hence highly multidisciplinary.

In contemporary culture, more and more the performing arts are exploring the theories and the methodologies of scientific research. The "secret" mechanisms of knowledge are interrogated in their capacity to experiment and encounter a shared imagination. Artists investigate the link between art and science that opens, closes, disturbs, normalises, predisposes, disconnects, moves and identifies the performance circuit. Live art and science are the systems that marry the soul and the ingenuity of the brain, expression and representation, experimental practice and pure research. The artist's gaze, whether individual or the expression of a collective identity, has embraced the challenge and the potential of the scientific research, using this new tool with creativity and without any prejudice.

Focus on Art and Science in the Performing Arts is a project dedicated to the creation and dissemination of contemporary choreographic, theatrical and artistic works. It is a forum, a space for exchanges and encounters, providing the opportunity to discover new works by artists from different European countries involved in innovative interdisciplinary projects.

Focus intends to support and document a creative and productive process carried out by a new generation of artists and authors, encouraging cultural exchanges and exposing the participants to creative stimuli generated by interaction and contamination among different cultural areas (performing arts, visual arts, science, technology).
More and more, artists (choreographers, theatre directors, musicians, visual artists) and scientists together are carrying out research and work at international level which merge contemporary performing arts, science and new technologies, contributing to the definition of new interdisciplinary aesthetic paradigms and overcoming the classic concept of artistic disciplines. This is a unilateral, reductive concept of creation. The artistic outcome springs from the artist's proposal which cannot be traced back to a specific, concrete form. Creation comes from the on-going contamination of all arts; Focus will therefore give special attention to those projects that are multidisciplinary, transversal, hybrid, and that integrate conceptual paradigms and the research methods of contemporary scientific pursuits.