the Motus Project

Sunday, 12th of June 2016

Stour Space Gallery

PRESS RELEASE

the Motus Project

The Motus Project is pleased to present its first edition in a one-day event that will
take place at Stour Space Gallery on Sunday, 12th of June 2016.
The event will revolve around the concept of movement. Sound art, video-installation, dance, architecture and virtual reality, will be the disciplines by which the
artists will present their perception of this topic, exploring and opening new paths
for its interpretation.
The aim of the Motus Project is to promote innovative artistic works that can connect audiences from different areas of interest, and develop new dialogues between
disciplines. In that direction, the exhibition will act as a platform for emergent artists
to present and share their work, allowing them to interact with creators from different backgrounds.

Artists: Tania Ortiz Zamorano; Fenia Kotsopoulou & Daz Disley; Jo Cork; Anastasia
Papaeletheriadou and VIPA; AE; The London Soundpainting Orchestra Founded by
Diego Ghymers; Amma Dance Theatre.
Coordinated by: Anastasia Papaeletheriadou, Minna Triin kohv and Carla Guardiola.
Dates: Sunday, 12th of June 2016, 6:00 - 9:00 pm.
Venue: Stour Space Gallery; 7 Roach Rd, Tower Hamlets, Greater London E3 2PA.
More information: info@motusproject.co.uk

the Schedule
Fenia Kostopoulou & Daz Disley; INner Space Revisited (loop video)

6:00 - 9:00 pm.

AE; WHIST (House Virtual Reality Headset Video)

6:00 - 9:00 pm.

Amma Dance Theatre; Blues in your eyes (live performance)

6:35 - 6:50 pm.

Anastasia Papaeleftheriadou and V.I.P.A, in collaboration with Giovana Chalkiopoulou, Ines Zinho Pinheiro & Bianca Ranieri; If not Me,
then Who? (live performance)

7:00 - 7:17 pm.

London Sound painting Orchestra by Diego Ghymers; Soundpainting

Project (live performance)

7:30 - 8:00 pm.

Tania Ortiz Zamorano & Verena Schneider; The Bamboo cutter (ive
performance).

8:15 - 8:25 pm.

Jo Cork; Sensate (video installation)

8:30 - 8:47 pm.

Tania Ortiz Zamorano

The Bamboo Cutter:

Bio:

Tania will be presenting a performance inspired by the

traditional Japanese folk tale The Bamboo Cutter, an
iconic tale from X Century.

After graduating in Fashion Design in Middlesex

University in 2011, Tania decided to explore her
3D making skills by initiating an MA in Costume
Design for Performance in London College of
Fashion. There she found her preferred way of
expression through performance making.

The story describes an old man who finds a small girl,

the size of a hand, inside a bamboo stalk. She turns out
to be a princess and a divine figure that comes to this
world to experience all human emotions. It so happens
that melancholy and depression dominate her adulthood.

In her researches one can often see references

from Science and Art, linked together to create
a massive design with very detail and hand finished embellishment.

This project is not only a story of a sad princess, but

an exploration of the emotional disconnection that
humans could experience when are ejected from their
context and environment, in this case referring to the
events of Japan at the end of WWII and the emergence
of the Post War Japanese Avant-Garde Art movements.

The Bamboo Cutter; directed by Tania Ortiz Zamorano and performed by Verena Schneider. Photo Credits: Alex Traylen.

Fenia Kotsopoulou - Daz Disley

INner Space Revisited:

Bio:

This video-installation is a reaction to the fractured

memories of a transient hospital community long departed from this abandoned place where now shadows of experience reside in the decaying remains of
once majestic architecture. This work started as a site
specific improvised performance for camera made in
Beelitz- Heilstaetten (Germany), TB clinic and sanatorium turned military hospital where both Hitler and
Honecker were patients. Now an abandoned, haunting,eerie place; shrouded in mystery, occupied by the
accumulated memories of thousands of patients. The
dance is a spontaneous reaction to the fragmented
memories hidden within the walls and the effects both
a metaphor and communications channel for the myriad distressed psyches informing the performance.

Working together since 2013, Daz & Fenia

come from the fields of Music and Dance and
collide in a joint-practice centered on exploring
the synthesis and synergies of their diverse work
in coding, performance, live art and ultimately video. Primary areas of their (serious) play
tend to fall into the dimension of time and the
presentation of liminal realities, fragmentation,
and the embodiment of fractured psychies - although they dont rule-out wider explorations,
character developments and topics with more
politically sensitive subject areas.

Abandoned place with layers of colour: each room a

different silent story.The wind comes in through broken
windows as outside birds are singing. Inside: I hear my
breath, my steps. I am alone here and my heart beats
fast so I dance. I dance with my fears.

Their works have been shown at Festivals in the

fields of Video Art, Dance, Choreography and
Technology including: IVAHM, ADAF, FIVA,
MADATAC, FILE, VideoFormes, InShadow,
MagmArt and more.

INner Space Revisited; 2013, Fenia Kotsopoulou and Daz Disley.

Jo Cork
Sensate:

Bio:

One womans fight to shed the emotional inhibition

which prevents her from feeling any true physical connection to her life. Through her desperate journey, she
seeks a way to feel the reality of her world; passion,
pain, joy and vulnerability alike, and reconnect with
the visceral sensations of what it is to be human, alive
and conscious.

Jo Cork grew up in the Peak District and studied

at The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. She
made work for Liverpools LEAP Dance Festival
and Ludus Dance Cuts and danced in works by
Lea Anderson and Frauke Requardt, Kate Jackson, Ruth Tyson-Jones, Fleur Darkin and Gary
Clarke alongside practicing in dance in health
and as a teacher.

Having had a long-term, but until now, unexplored fascination

with dance for camera, Sensate is my first film. Im intrigued by the
imagined visuals in the minds eye of a choreographer; the close
ups, angles and cuts which the mind applies to movement when we
play it through in our head - and how these imagined visuals instantaneously and instinctively consider how the choreography should
be seen and experienced which aspects of it should be noticed,
which exist merely by default, and which can inspire intrigue better
by their absence than their presence. Through my work with film
I seek to hone my intentions as a choreographer, to expose the
richer potentials and authenticity of dance work when it is viewed
in a prescribed way, and to use the medium of film to translate my
imagination directly for the viewer.
Jo Cork on Sensate.

Sensate; Jo Cork.

After a period dancing with Temporeare Theatre in Berlin, Jo moved to London, working
with STREB, Tempered Body Dance Theatre and
House of ODwyer before joining the artistic
community at Chisenhale Dance Space where
she reconnected with her practice as an independent dancer and maker.

AE
Whist:

Bio:

Welcome to Whist House, where you search for hidden stories of a strange family through a Virtual Reality
headset. Whose story will you follow?
We are bringing you into a world made up of pockets
of fiction, inspired by the work of Sigmund Freud and
Shuji Terayama.
Your instincts determine what you see.
The force of your personality drives the narrative.
You move through the journey on a pathway unique
to you.

AE is an Ashford-based company founded

in 2013 by Esteban Fourmi and Aoi Nakamura. With the vision to bring the performance
closer to audiences, their mission is to create
high-quality productions and experiences.
Their artistic practice is hybrid in nature traversing visual arts, philosophy, societal, architecture, digital, dance and theatre. The tension and
synergies between this disciplines fuelling our
process that create each work.
AEs work has been shown at national and
international festivals such as Spill Festival of
Performance (UK), Oval Space (UK), Cut Out
Festival (Mexico), American Performing Art
University (Cyprus), State Theatre Wiesbaden
(Germany) and others as well as featured on i-D
magazine, Vice, The creator Project, Insuffolk,
Tanz, vimeo staff picks, BBC news and others.

Combining the power of physical theatre and VR technology, Whist is a re-imagination of interactive storytelling. A cinematic narrative that gives life to physical
and digital spaces at the same time.

Whist; Esteban and Aoir Nakamura.

Anastasia Papaeletheriadou - VIPA

If not Me, then Who?

Bio:

This piece explores the battle of the self in recognizing

its diverse sides; a story of the self and its double is
told in this performance inspired by Alan Edgar Poes
poem William Wilson; a fight/game in which the different parts of human personality haunt and direct the
protagonist(s). During the act, three individuals play
with their projection, eventually becoming one integrated body. Three performers search for something in
between the face and its reflection, between light and
shade, between the one who is watching and the one
who is being watched.Three untold stories merge with
each other and each performer self-reflects upon the
others with the use of interactive spatial installation.
The audience is immersed in a journey in which they
experiment an open dialogue with the performers.

The live performance-dance has been directed

by Choreographer Anastasia Papaeleftheriadou
in collaboration with V.I.P.A (Virtual Institute of
Performing Architecture) Kyveli Anastassiadi,
Alix Ki.

Architectural note: the performers movements based

on improvisation techniques are a result of the architecture of the space in which the performance takes
place.
Opposite to the idea that our movement is a consequence of the space we inhabit, this piece is an attempt
to create an environment where this dynamic works in
reverse: the movement is thus the force that delimitates
the space where the body operates.

Anastasia Papaeleftheriadou is a contemporary

dance artist and curator based in London. Anastasia combines her interest in community dance
as a passionate teacher, with other professional
activities as a performer and choreographer, in
other contexts including live arts and performance installations.

VIPA (Viral Institute of Performing Architecture)

aims to develop the correlation between performance practices and architectural practices expanding the way that architecture has so
far been taught, perceived, made and thought
through. The Institute focuses on defining Performance Architecture as a movement in architecture of the 21st century, by undertaking practical, educational and theoretical work.

If not Me, than Who? Directed by Anastasia Papaeletheriadou and VIPA. Peroformed by Giovana
Ghalkiopoulou, Ines Zinho Pinheiro and Bianca Reniari.

London Soundpainting Orchestra

Soundpainting project:

Bio:

Created by the American composer, Walter Thompson

in the 1970s, Soundpainting is an international compositional sign language. Using a palette of hundreds
of gestures, the Soundpainter builds live compositions
with the improvised responses of an ensemble of Performers/improvisers.
This collective creative process in full sight of the audience and a broad range of influences and backgrounds
from talented young musicians (from Jazz to Electronics, Rock to Classical) make it captivating, electric, a
truly contemporary show.

Created by Belgian/Chilean pianist-composer

Diego Ghymers in 2010, the London Soundpainting Orchestra is the first Soundpainting act
in the UK, and an evolving collective of artists.

In this occasion, the orchestra will consist of he following instruments: clarinet, bass clarinet, one tenor,
saxophon, 2 trumpets, tuba, vibraphone, electronics,
electric piano, electric guitar, double bass, drums and
four dancers.

The London Soundpainting Orchestra by Diego Ghymers.

In different formations and size 16 performers

for this occasion, they have performed in such
diverse places as the Southbank Center, The
London Coliseum (ENO), the ICA, Shunt, Cafe
1001, Richmix, Son Gallery, and more.

Amma Dance Theatre

Blues In Your Eyes:

Bio:

This video installation is a re-imagination of Amma

Dance Theatres Blues For Fools with projected immersive visuals emulating the dancers transformative
experience. The installation itself will play with prospective and obscured view.

Amma Dance Theatre is a new theatre company

that was founded in London by two young artists,
Marion Geisler and Amelia Forrest, who have
decided to embark on a journey of research and
mindfulness together.

The solo Blues for Fools is inspired by Eastern Philosopher Alan Wattss lecture, What have we forgot? The
solo sets out to show a journey of warmth, compassion, impatience, curiosity, fear, frustration, emptiness,
acceptance, bliss and growth. The dancer represents
the journey we must all undertake before we realise
that we are everything, we are our whole reality.

Their goal is to create performances that enrich peoples lives and understanding through a
combination of dance, theatre, and music with
a focus on their collaborative process into the
research of human nature and society today.

Installation & Concept by Amelia Forrest.

Interpreted by Marion Geisler.
Abstract Visual Film by Charis Boon Films.

Charis Boon films abstracted details from everyday life; reframing and warping recognisable elements to separate the object identity with the
viewer, to catalyse the stimulation of viewing colour, movement, tone and texture and to re-spiritualise mundane entities. She explores representing the relationship between the inner perceptive
conscious experience and the outer cosmos.

Installation & Concept by Amelia Forrest; Interpreted by Marion Geisler. Photo credits: Charis Boon/Jeroen Rutten.