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Klaus Obermaier (Austria) –“Dancing House” interactive installation

Can you imagine the Sukiennice dancing? Sure you can, but now you can also see it! Klaus Obermeier will stage this incredible spectacle with the use of new media at the Materia Prima Festival.

Klaus Obermaier is a multimedia artist, director, stage designer and composer who has been creating innovative work using the latest multimedia technology for over two decades.

His performances and installations are shown at festivals and in theatres throughout Europe, Asia, North and South America and Australia.
Obermaier has worked with dancers of the Nederlands Dans Theater, Chris Haring, Robert Tannion (DV8), Desireé Kongerød (S.O.A.P. Dance Theatre Frankfurt),
and composed for such ensembles as the Kronos Quartet, German Chamber Philharmonics, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, the Balanescu Quartet, and many others.

Since 2006, he has been a visiting professor at the University IUAV of Venice, teaching direction and new media. He is also a member of the jury of the international choreography competition “no ballet” in Ludwigshafen/Rhein, Germany. He gives occasional lectures at many universities across the world.

Dancing House – interactive installation

“Dancing House” is an installation that the artist has already staged in many different places. He showed it twice in Bad Rothenfelde, where he transformed the otherwise respectable spa into a dancing building. He will do the same for us at the Sukiennice in Kraków. The projection that he will stage will make the Sukiennice come alive in front of our eyes. The spectators will have to help by jumping and moving around during the show.

Reviews:

“Bring a whole house down with a few swings of one’s hips? This playful, and at the same time sassy and spectacular project is the centrepiece of the artistic aid programme that since 2007, every two years, turns the clinic site with 7000 residents into the Mecca of the projection avant-garde”

Till Briegleb, Sueddeutsche Zeitung

“Klaus Obermaier's dynamic projection "Dancing House" brings the classic column-plain facade of the spa house not only into motion, it works on top of that interactive. It is the users who control by their body turns, how fast and in which direction the bricks seem to fly away.”

Neue Osnabruecker Zeitung

Klaus Obermaier challenges his viewers (…) by encouraging them to take exercise. The more movement there is the more changeable is the projection on the facade The media artist, director and choreographer uses the camera to interpret the movement of spectators and in this way lets them control different programs. The network of the whole construction begins to move under the impact of flashing lights and soon the facades begin to live their own life. If the audience moves a lot a façade can simply visually collapse.

 Ursula Koch, Mindener Tageblatt

Duration time: 5 h  (interactive installation on the Sukiennice)

Credits:

Creator: Klaus Obermaier

Assistant: Stefano D'Alessio

  phot. Klaus Obermaier