PROJECT

Virtual Choreography is an open database of movements, a ‘world gesture map’ that allows the audience to visualize and upload several recorded motions created by themselves. A project that has continuation in different cities and countries around the world. People from differing communities in the area are chosen for their behavioral characteristics based on observing their normative social and private behaviors

In Virtual Choreography participants are asked to record themselves for one minute completing their gesture which will then be uploaded to the website and form part of the exhibition. The work references the One Minute Sculptures of Erwin Wurm and is transformed into what Antolí refers to as One Minute Social Choreography.

Through dissemination of the recorded videos, a network of created gestures is highlighted. As the participants are asked to re-perform their daily gestures, movements that were once natural take on a new significance. The participants’ daily movements become absurd; their willingness to re-perform these depletes their social power and hierarchies of power become obsolete. Here, the term choreography is democratized as everyone who performs becomes a dancer.

There is also a notion of exchange within the work, exchange between the camera and the performer, exchange between the artist and the collaborators and the literal exchange of movements in the city. Through this exchange, Antolí aims to map the archaeology of the area and provoke new ways of thinking surrounding the perception of dance and identity.