MI-RU is a performance project having as a starting point the concept of homeostasis. The phenomenon that maintains stable the human body’s internal environment in response to changes in external conditions. The system has a mechanism to modify and adapt certain functions of the body in relation with its environment and try to keep you in balance.
Can we extrapolate this hidden core system to other bigger systems in our contemporary society and our contemporary cities?
The project explores in ourselves’ in relation with bigger structures, spaces and communities through presence, movement and sound. Limits and borders imposed or created by us. Vulnerable bodies exposed, saturated and exhausted to normalization.
As we look around our environment, we start the game of voluntary and involuntary eye movement, selection and process. We have the ability to attend to or focus on one or several sources of information while ignoring all the rest, or at least reducing their significance. We are constantly exposed to physical and psychological saturation.
Passing through different states of contemplation and perception. MI-RU is using primary elements. Basic simple material like a single movement, a vowel or a simple sound to be stretched on time and projected in the space. Repeating the same element recording the same thing to transform it, manipulate it and slowly change it into a new one.
What are the possibilities of challenging the body and our perception, what creates our relation with the space?
Playing from order to a different order to a disorder to a certain order again. Very defined lines to create an optical illusion and invisible walls to create a closer reality.
Awake rapid eye movement choreography, collapsing body, a certain structure built to break in a ‘normal’ state.
‘We use our eyes for seeing. Our field of vision reveals a limited space, something vaguely circular, wich ends very quickly to left and right, and doesn’t extend very far up or down’. George Perec
‘During long periods of history, the mode of human sense perception changes with humanity’s entire mode of existence. The manner in which human sense perception is organized, the medium in which it is accomplished, is determined not only by nature but by historical circumstances as well.’(The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction) Walter Benjamin
Concept Park Keito
Choreographer/performer Kotomi Nishiwaki
Musician Miquel Casaponsa
Choreography assistant Shannon Cooney
Costume design Kahori Furukawa
Lightdesign Carles Rigual
Co-production Sala Hiroshima (Barcelona), Festival Quinzena de dansa metropolitana de Barcelona
