ROTOЯ confronts the fundamental categories of movement, time, and space … (Shilla Strelka)
In ROTOЯ, Peter Kutin (concept, composition, live electronics) joins forces with Patrik Lechner (live video projections) and Mathias Lenz (mechatronics) to create a kinetic Audio-Video-Light-Sculpture live performance. Building upon the foundational parameters of Kutin’s kinetic object TORSO#1 from 2018, ROTOЯ intensifies the acceleration on the interdependency of sound, image, light, and object. The piece literally propels the rotating sound-sculpture to stages where it transcends into a hologram-like sonic body, a kinetic performer that navigates through unpredictable heterochronic states, establishing a mesmerizingly complex multimedial-polyrhythm.
… the sculpture fans out into geometric forms, bunches into images of a diffused reality. Due to the constant acceleration, it’s no longer possible to perceive the movement in detail, but instead, lines, colors, surfaces, and sounds rush past us.
… In the cyclical movement, image and sound conspire and work towards a dizzying and unreal three-dimensionality, a play of visibility and invisibility, actuality and virtuality, visual abstraction and acoustic affect. (Shilla Strelka)
ROTOЯ – SONIC BODY received the International-Jury-Award for best work at the 27th Videomedeja Festival in Novi Sad 2023;
Jury Statement (excerpt) :
‚A live performance which brings Video art, performance and sculptures to another level… A rotating sculpture, a hologram and at the same time a sound body which is awakened to an ecstatic life…‘
It was / will be shown at numerous Festivals and also as a Full-Dome version at SAT Montreal
Selection :
* UT Connewitz / Leipzig (2021), Crossroads Festival / Mozarteum – Salzburg (2021) , Heart of noise Festival / Innsbruck (2021) , Filmfestival Santiago de Compostella (2021) , Impulstanz Festival / MUMOK Vienna (2021) , Spider – Festival of radical Bodies / Ljubljana (2021) , VIS Filmfestival / Vienna (2021) , Mind over Matter – Exhibition / Dresden-Contemporary (2021) , Ann Arbor Film Festival / U.S.A (2020) , Kunstraum Kesselhaus Bamberg / FK:K IV Festival (2020) , Sonica-Festival / Ljubljana (2020) , Musikprotokoll / Steirischer Herbst, Graz (2020) , Mutek Montreal / SAT FullDome (2020 & 2022) , EMAP networking conference / Kontejner – Zagreb (2022) , Halle G Museumsquartier, Vienna, Wroclav Biennale for Media Arts (PL) , GNRation Braga (PT), Videomedeja Festival Novi Sad, ….further dates TBA.
A cinematic version (14 minutes, HD, 5.1 sound) is distributed by Sixpack-Film. The project has been kindly supported by the Vienna’s cultural department / MA7 Musik.
Images © by Peter Mayr / Martin Gross / SAT Montreal / Huga Salsa for Gnration
