Disappear (see credits below)
By Carlos A. Inada
From São Paulo
Via Art Threat
Disappear is a collaboration between media artist pk langshaw, the band Pharmakon, poet Ian Ferrier, and others (see credits at the end of the video). The dancers use sensors that connect movement and background and reminded me of Camille Utterback’s work (see video below) and its exploration of technology and its ability to give presence to a body; all music is improvised, adding to this present tense framework.
Interviewed by Art Threat, Ian Ferrier explains some of his influences:
“Disappear” reflects on the fact that the core of all things that you hold on to can be taken away by circumstance, by the state, by your own psyche […]. In writing the poem I was also thinking about all those who disappeared in South America and all those who died in the war in Iraq, in Afghanistan — how so many peoples lives were stolen.
