EPIDERM > MEXICO 2009

THE EPIDERM  PERFORMANCE CREATES AN IMMERSIVE ENVIRONMENT AND IS A VEHICLE FOR SKOLTZ_KOLGEN’S EXPERIMENTATIONS IN THE CORRELATION BETWEEN IMAGE AND SOUND. THE PIECE ALSO QUESTIONS THE WAY AUDIENCES HAVE TRADITIONAL RELATED TO THIS SORT OF PERFORMANCE: SPECTATORS ARE INVITED TO LIE ON THEIR BACKS, HEADS RESTING ON CUSHIONS, FROM WHERE THEY CAN CONTEMPLATE THE GIANT CIRCULAR SCREEN HANGING FROM THE CEILING. SPECTATORS’ HORIZONTAL POSITION AND THE 5.1 SURROUND SOUND PROVIDE OPTIMAL CONDITIONS FOR THE PERCEPTION OF BOTH SOUND AND IMAGE, ACCENTUATING THE FORCE OF ATTRACTION AND REPULSION AMONG ATOMS AND IMMERSING USERS DEEP WITHIN THE NANOWORLD. IN THIS WORLD OF THE INFINITELY SMALL, IF A HUMAN STOOD ONE NANOMETRE TALL, A RED BLOOD CELL WOULD APPEAR TO BE 1,759 STORIES HIGH.