“The thing is in a place, but perception in nowhere.”Merleau-Ponty
On Friday the 26th of February, Finnish artist Inari Salmivaara presented the performance that marked the end of her research period with Viewmaster. After three weeks of intense work with two performers, her work premiered with two sold-out events at the Huis a/d Werf. The result was an elegant exploration of the way in which we perceive the world around us. It had a contemplative rhythm that induced people into sharing the artist's questions about perception and reality. It was a beautiful and sober performance that was greatly appreciated, at least from what I could gather in the after-talks. Furthermore, the original creators of Viewmaster (Heike Langsdorf, Ula Sickle and Laurent Liefooghe ) were excited about the results. This is the first stone in the road of Viewmaster:The Series, a collaborative approach where different artists will be invited to come and work with the machine that developed last year, after an 19th century optical effect often referred to as the Pepper's ghost effect.
The following video show an excerpt of the research process:
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