I made a music video for DJ/ producer Maga Bo. Filmed in Rio de Janeiro it takes a poetic view at the ups and downs of life. We wanted to do something different. I hope you like it! Enjoy
Below are the video versions of Patchwork Bodies. The installation will show a continues video that is always slightly changing from the previous version.
‘Patchworkbodies’ unites fine arts, dance, music and film. Five short dance movies and a contemporary dance choreography developed from a process of the exchange between artists. The paintings of Sabine Auer were the starting point of the creative journey. Bodies in pieces, cut open. The sewed and scarred bodies give space to associations and let the bodies speak about enclosed emotions. The tormented and cricked joints show the disturbed relationship between the self-image and the loss of identity. There are no faces. The human is defined by the body.
Idea/ Direction: Martina Marini
Choreography: Martina Marini in collaboration with the Performers
Dancers: Santija Bieza, Eleonora De Maio, Anastasia Kostner, Tania Ottavi, Evelyn Petruzzino
Drawings: Sabine Auer
Music: Manuela Kerer
Direction/ camera/ editing/ video art concept: Maarten van der Glas
Costumes: Tanzschmiede/fucinadanza
With special thanks to: Irmtraud Filippi und Arabesque, Mertz Ideas, Theater in der Altstadt, Erwin Seppi, Peter Gobbi, Karl Illmer vom Verdinser Hof, Matthias Egger, Stadtgemeinde Meran
With support by Autonome Provinz Bozen – Amt für Deutsche Kultur, Stiftung Südtiroler Sparkasse, Autonome Region Trentino-Südtirol
In july of 2012 choreographer Martina Marini and video maker Maarten van der Glas began making 5 dance video’s in a series called Patchwork Bodies. Marini was inspired by drawings and paintings of Sabina Auer to make a theatrical dance performance around the subject of woman identity. For the making of dance video’s she sought to collaborate with Maarten van der Glas. He is a video artist working in the field of dance. The solis were made by the dancers and Marini. Together Marini and Van der Glas co-directed the video’s.
Van der Glas didn’t want to make conventional dance video’s and inspired by the theme and performance the thought of the pieces as moving paintings playing in an endless loop. But instead of looping exactly the same, they differ slightly each time. The decision is made by a computer program Van der Glas wrote, and is sometimes referred to as generative art, or chance montage.
The 5 dance video’s have been exhibited in ES Contemporary Art Gallery in Meran, northn Italy. The dance video’s will be exhibited and sold as moving paintings.
The choreographies are inspired on the work of painter Sabine Auer. Martina Marini initiated the project and made the choreographies.
‘Patchworkbodies’ unites fine arts, dance, music and film. Five short dance movies and a contemporary dance choreography developed from a process of the exchange between artists. The paintings of Sabine Auer were the starting point of the creative journey. Bodies in pieces, cut open. The sewed and scarred bodies give space to associations and let the bodies speak about enclosed emotions. The tormented and cricked joints show the disturbed relationship between the self-image and the loss of identity. There are no faces. The human is defined by the body.
Idea/Direction: Martina Marini
Choreography: Martina Marini in collaboration with the Performers
Dancers: Santija Bieza, Eleonora De Maio, Anastasia Kostner, Tania Ottavi, Evelyn Petruzzino
Drawings: Sabine Auer
Music: Manuela Kerer
Direction/ camera/ editing/ video art concept: Maarten van der Glas
Costumes: Tanzschmiede/fucinadanza
With special thanks to: Irmtraud Filippi und Arabesque, Mertz Ideas, Theater in der Altstadt, Erwin Seppi, Peter Gobbi, Karl Illmer vom Verdinser Hof, Matthias Egger, Stadtgemeinde Meran
With support by Autonome Provinz Bozen – Amt für Deutsche Kultur, Stiftung Südtiroler Sparkasse, Autonome Region Trentino-Südtirol
22. – 24.11.2012, Meran – ES contemporary art gallery
22.11.2012 Vernissage 19.00
24.11.2012 Finissage 11.00 – 13.00
I am happy to announce that we have succesfully filmed all the material for the Galope song! We decided to make a mini movie around a story that takes a youth memory from Bo as a starting point. We filmed two nights in the streets of the Lapa neighborhood. Filming at night is not always a save proposition in Rio. But this is a relatively save part of town and besides our main actor Daniels’ street wiseness really helped out.
Daniel was exactly how we envisioned our character to be: endearing but unpredictable, and seemingly knowing everybody. An other stroke of luck was when we found our second player, an elderly man Bo and I met on street, right where we intended to film. Pedro was his name and he has the exact charm and old worldliness to him as we envisioned.
We are now working hard on the editing, we will keep you informed shortly about the progress!
Thanks,
Maarten
If there are any questions please contact me personally. Thanks!
Maga Bo and VJ M – Video Collaboration Project from Maarten van der Glas on Vimeo.
MAGA BO/VJ M video collaboration
Introduction
Maarten van der Glas (VJ M) and producer/DJ Maga Bo collaborate on an audiovisual research and production project. For the duration of 1 month, they will be collaborating in Rio de Janeiro to work on two music video’s for the song’s Galope and Xororô from Maga Bo’s new album Quilombo do Futuro and create a new live video engine to be integrated with Maga Bo’s live audio set.
Both artists are well-known for their globetrotting approach to creating their art, with a strong focus on community participation. Maga Bo’s music spans the breadth of international urban bass music from North Africa to Brazil, whereas many of Maarten van der Glas’s works feature footage shot during his journeys in South Asia.
The Music Video
For the music video’s for Galope and Xororô we will seek out and contrast stark contrasts in the city Rio de Janeiro to reflect our age’s wider condition of the unequal distribution of wealth. This is especially visible in the favelas, shanty-towns consisting of improvised dwellings, known in the West mainly through connotations of poverty and social problems.
Rio’s favelas, however, are also vibrant centers of creativity – many of Brazil’s most legendary samba schools originated in the favelas, as did today’s baile funk style. We want to capture the diversity and contrasts of life in Rio in an investigative manner, portraying both the hopes and dilemmas of contemporary life in the city.
The Live Video Engine
Besides the music video’s for Galope and Xororô, Maarten van der Glas will be laying the foundation for a Max/MSP live video engine to be integrated with Maga Bo’s Ableton Live audio set. By layering audio and video tracks, Maga Bo’s live improvisations will extend to the visual realm, allowing an instantaneous integration of video material generated during Maga Bo’s travels around the globe.
What we need
For these projects Maarten van der Glas will travel to Rio de Janeiro, where Maga Bo lives, and live there for a month recording the material for the two video’s and laying foundations for the live video set. After that periode Maarten van der Glas will edit the material back in Europe. The Kickstarter Funding is needed for travel expenses, software licenses, materials and living expenses.
Here is more info about the making of Maga Bo’s album ‘Quilombo do Futuro’
Your donation is greatly appreciated to make this project possible. Thanks.
Here is the link to the kickstarter project.