INJEP residency - Park in Progress 2
June - July 2005
The Third Person was invited to produce a new work for Park in Progress II. The project 'Jiggery Pokery-Sublina' was developed over two weeks with Italian choreographer Mauro Paccagnella, Parisian video artist and musician Stéphane Broc, dancers Mohamed Benaji from Belgium, the Argentinean dancer Ayelen Parolin and a troop of synchronized swimmers.
The location was a large public swimming pool, which backs onto the Injep Park. The nine hundred strong audience sat on the bank over looking 50 meters of curved windows that form the outside arc of the swimming pool. The performance, which lasted 40min, mixed music, dance, a light show and video, utilizing the interior and exterior spaces on view.
Although a new collaboration, the project developed from nothing to a finished piece over the two weeks and was completed five minutes before the audience arrived.
Developing a concept, sound track, video, lights and movement in the time afforded was a challenge, however the result was a true collaboration, adopting strengths and ideas from the different people involved. The final work talked a lot about the process and context from which it had been made, layering ideas and movement on top of one another whilst maintaining a comic and close relationship to the audience and the building. It was a work in context, whose elements were large and unruly, however the finished piece threaded its way through the place animating the building, the moment and the audience as it went on its first journey.
About Park in Progress II ( Text taken from Park in Progress guide.)
Resolutely cross-disciplinary and experimental, Park in progress aims at initiating new collaborations between artists coming from across Europe, Quebec and Asia, in order to create original and wholly new artistic experiments.
Through these unusual encounters between creators, Park in Progress provides a leading environment for new forms of expression and relation to an open and diverse public.
The audience will be able to discover some extremely promising artists, some already internationally known, who clearly illustrate the vitality and the diversity of the young European creation.
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