OzuzuDances
Space Carcasses Installation
Immersive Media Studio in Coram Library
July 20 – Aug 2
Open Hours TBD
A carcass leaves an imprint of a version of us we are no longer, a “skin,” a container that we have “left behind”. Like the residue of the body’s presence, the residue of our carcasses resonate with layered experience.
Experience the residue of Space Carcasses by OzuzuDances in the Immersive Media Studio. Projected visuals will encompass the room and ephemera from the performance will be exhibited throughout. This is a rare opportunity to interact with the design elements of a multi-media show. Engage with the video, shot by Simon Rouby in Savannah, Georgia and Santiago, Cape Verde and experience those spaces within this new space.
Space Carcasses gathers experience embedded in the walls of hundreds of years old buildings separated by oceans and floating in the dust of thousands of years of the earth redistributing itself…and asserts the body’s capacity to wear it all, what we made, what was made of us, where we were, where we are. Like a garment. And like a garment, also perhaps, to take it off.
Director, animator and transdisciplinary artist, Rouby explores and contributes to the African narrative. Always interested in the decomposition of movement, he came to cinema frame by frame, directing several short films. His 2015 film, “Adama,” was selected for the Césars and European Film Awards. As a resident at the Villa Medici in Rome , he began the creation of “Pangea,” for which he was awarded the Atelier des Ailleurs prize in 2018. Recent work includes contribution to art direction and storyboard of the animated documentary feature film “Flee,” which was nominated for three Oscars in 2022.
Space Carcasses is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by Bates Dance Festival (Lewiston, ME), The QDance Center (Lagos, Nigeria), Hope Mohr Dance – The Bridge Project (San Francisco, CA) and NPN. For more information: www.npnweb.org.
Space Carcasses was also made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. And in part through an NCCAkron Research Residency and an EMPAC Production Residency.
