KINESPHERE 8.0 - Atelier Arts Sciences

PROJECT

ARTISTS

SCIENTISTS

PHOTOS

RACHEL MARTIN

The residency began in June 2021 and will run until EXPERIMENTA 2022 as part of the Isère department’s Scène ressources.

See the invisible, give weight to the small, the different
With her project Rachel Martin wants to work on the notion of gesture memory, the interaction between a dancing body with the environment of which it is part. What is the register of a gesture, a dance, a presence (even if ephemeral from a temporal point of view) in the surrounding material, in memory, in semantics? What remains does a dancing body leave? “What's left?” “What’s transformed?”

Rachel Martin wishes to give visual expression to gesture/movement/bodily expression in a different way than the one it usually espouses: the global view.
At home, it begins with a reflection on “what do we observe?” “What do we measure? What counts? What are the factors I take into consideration? What senses/tools do I use to observe? What if I listened with other senses? ”.
Rachel Martin wishes her approach to ensure listening to the movement by analyses of discrete, indirect, small and intimate components.

Measuring tool / Staging approach in the future
Carrying on from the three plan (volume) theory developed by Rudolph Laban to analyse movement, she wishes to use the construction of a kinesphere: an icosahedron allowing the registration of a moving body, a structure which will be the three-dimensional reference axis and possibly the media for measurement sensors.

Research in its early days
A moving body is at the heart of the approach. It's an experimental corpus, potentially augmented by a set of sensors. ”
Several avenues can be considered depending on the technical possibilities and possible partnerships. Meetings with CEA scientists, notably on data acquisition and signal processing, real-time signal capture, 3D images, possibly a work with kinects, etc., are in progress.

Replication, transport and experimental aspects for the public
Rachel Martin would like the invented form to be replicable in different environments (therefore a transportable device) and in which the spectator is potentially invited to experiment with the device for a 360 experience that may prompt him or her to question what is held and to what we hold.

Preliminary working approach
A preliminary working phase will be a test to capture position, followed by work on sound transcription and finally to free oneself of the visual aspect already occupied by the spectator's gaze.

Circasian Rachel Martin
Musician Yoan Richard

RACHEL MARTIN - Cie les impondérables

Before compagnie
After a career as an aerial dancer, Rachel Martin decided to focus her activity in the Grenoble region (38) to work on a long-term basis and begin driving cross-disciplinary meetings.

The weight of what is not measured
The heart of the activity remains centred on graphical and danced forms relating to gravity, in-situ, height, spaces and emptiness.

Cross-disciplinary approach
Various artistic collaborations punctuate and enhance her work. As a painter, architect, sound designer, photographer, computer scientist and maker, etc., Rachel Martin likes to work with people who are unlike her and find a common language, destabilize habits.

Dance areas
She is attracted by the idea of bringing an artistic proposal to places that normally do not lend themselves to such: buildings, public squares, old stations, gyms, public buildings, markets, cliffs, wastelands, industrial sites, etc.

She loves...
to invent new approaches, dance, height, adapting to places and people, meeting, collaborating, sweating, effort, learning, laughter…

What goes through her
Overturning perspective, questioning the notion of identity, of individuality, of traces, memory, play, the lines, paradoxes, the geometry of ideas, body mechanics, measurement of emptiness, its incarnation.

...there lies the interest in imparting knowledge. She is passionate about work systems and organizations, collective intelligence, agility and work methods for multiple parties, communication at the centre. The notion of frontier and living.

Current direction
Resize movement, take root, join in time and space with those around us, restore meaning to the term “living”.

COMPAGNIE
LES IMPONDERABLES explore emptiness, height, the media between circus and dance. After a career as an aerial dancer, Rachel Martin decided to focus her activity in the Grenoble region to work on a long-term basis and begin driving cross-disciplinary meetings. Various artistic collaborations punctuate and enhance her work. She likes to work with people who are unlike her and find a common language, destabilize habits. This is also what appealed to us in her way of addressing her artistic project.
The meeting with Atelier Arts Sciences focused on collective immersion, and Rachel Martin will be working on her project in the workshop’s immersive room, which she will present at EXPERIMENTA 2022.