An artwork for LONDON 2012

MOVED is a project that will bring London’s most famous buildings to life.

We will employ a technique called ‘video mapping‘ to create the illusion that a building is alive, animated and moving.

MOVED will explore the people and moments that have ‘moved’ the building in a massive spectacle with wonder, humor and fascination.

Combining ‘spectacle’ with ‘content’ we will create an emotional empathy between audience and building.

“We wish to bring an emotive narrative of more complex content, with subtle spectacle- as an entertainment for large audiences.

The art of projected 2D image developed on 3D software, called ‘Video Mapping’ is moving forward. We have invited artists who animate the inanimate, acros several creative disciplines, chosen for their ‘moving image’, art installations, VJ and animation, empathy with broad audiences, subtle understanding of visual signalling, and power to “animate the inanimate”. Simon Elliott

Artists: John Waters, Pippilotti Rist, Shirin Nishat, Andy Serkis, Clint Dyer, Claire Denis, Tony Oursler, Carlos Acosta, Todd Haynes, Wim Wenders, Fraser Ayres, Jenny Sealey, Barbara Cruger, Simon Elliott, Auro Foxcroft and Todd Solondz. All share an ability to capture sensuous, visceral, enthusiastic human expressiveness.

The National Theatre and Shakespeare’s Globe wish to host the artwork.

MOVED will play for one week at each location. We are also seeking additional venues.

The artwork will take place during the Cultural Olympiad.

We are seeking an Olympic sponsor to fund this project.

Garden of Ideas

The Garden of Ideas is a contemporary pleasure garden, housing arts and entertainment experiences that will constantly change and evolve, responding to each season and year like cultural flora and fauna.

The Garden of Ideas Workshopping Forum

Southwark Arts Forum invited Ahh… to present The Garden of Ideas at a workshopping forum to artists. The aim was to get feedback so as to shape the vision of the Garden of Ideas and possible collaboration with the artists.

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The Pierhouse, Hermitage Moorings, 16 Wapping High Street, E1W 1NG.

Southwark Arts Forum invited Ahh… to present The Garden of Ideas at a workshopping forum to artists. The aim was to get feedback so as to shape the vision of the Garden of Ideas and possible collaboration with the artists.

Two artists, Andrea Ehrenberg and Lara Popovic, of visualminutes kindly created a visual artwork representation of the forum. Visualminutes are currently the resident artists at the South Bank Centre.

Carlos Acosta and Zenaida Yanowsky.

Simon Elliott (creative producer  The Pegasus Choir) (amateur community choir)

slow motion film Falling Deep Inside.

Reviews:

‘…Simon Elliot’s ‘Falling Deep Inside’ surprises with its arresting film sequence. The final number features a live choir performing a haunting number that does something good to your insides.’ www.whatsonstage.com

‘There is also strong use of digital technology and multi-media, with the stage turning into a huge cinema screen during Hand Duets, with a close-up film of Acosta and Yankowsky’s tastefully naked bodies emphasising both the power behind each movement in the muscular close-ups and the fluidity in which they mirror each other in a seemingly effortless way, becoming one.’ www.citylife.co.uk

Performance Dates:

The Lowry (Manchester): 2 nights, 24th to 25th July 2011
The English National Opera: 4 nights,  27^th to 30^th July 2011
Birmingham Hippodrome: 4 nights, 17th to 20th August 2011

Social Enterprise London (SEL) commissioned Ahh… to make a video about the benefits of Social Enterprise as an Olympic Legacy for their website.

Ahh… wanted to make this corporate video more fun by working with digital artists Shaun Patrick James and Pikilipita, a ‘digital-light-panda-puppet was created and used in the interviews. The Panda was able to react and interact ‘live’ with the speakers. The people being interviewed ‘LOVED’ the panda, and it brought out the best in some of them.

Social Enterprise London represents the largest social enterprise network in the UK with over 2,400 members, linking and inspiring social enterprises in London and beyond.

English National Opera – Carlos Acosta Premieres

Simon Elliott created the CGI projection and slow motion film (Falling Deep Inside - A slow motion film exploring the emotion and impulse under the skin, before the movement) for Carlos Acosta with his team. An artwork to bring Carlos closer to his audience, a series of duets exploring moments we repeat in relationships. Giant full screen digital projection onto gauze, creating the illusion of the 3D setting- coming out of the live performers imagination.

Carlos Acosta Premieres ENO London Coliseum from Ahh…Arts Igniting Minds on Vimeo.

”The choreography was diverse – including some simple breaking and locking – and concentrated on sequences of isolated moving body parts. It was easy to appreciate the intent of these works, effectively linked back to the dreamlike quality of the preceding 3D imagery…”
Londondance.com

”…Elliott’s film Falling Deep Inside proves a tense exploration of the two dancers in motion.”
The Telegraph

Working with some of London’s most talented digital artists (Anna Boberg, Shaun O’Connor, Somu Mohapatra and Barry Gene Murphy) to explore the new possibilities of projected digital image in the live-theatrical setting, including a HD film (Falling Deep Inside).

Simon directed the 25 magnificent singers of the amateur Pegasus Choir whose ethereal sounds could be heard throughout the show, bringing community and high end art to play with ‘complex content’ for broad, popular audiences.

Below is a link to the BBC interview Carlos gave prior  to the opening of the show.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-10699261

Simon invited Carlos to choreograph the movements of a building for Breathing Human Into Buildings to create an artwork for London to celebrate the 2012 Olympic Games .

Peter Forde’s Live Digital projection, commissioned by The Tower Bridge Gallery.

Peter was also commissioned in response to the artwork by the Shakespeare’s Theatre, to create a permanent digital artwork for the Globe Exhibition.
As visitors to the exhibition pass the entrance where there is a bust of Shakespeare, people are encouraged to stroke his cheek and see if they can feel any poetry. Secretly their action is filmed and, in the main exhibition, screened on the wall: enlarged and prominent. Visitors see as the cheek is rubbed the head glows then fills with light which then travels along the visitors arm and fills the visitor with light and words. It is a simple and very effective visually pleasing way of engaging people with Shakespeare in the exhibition and livens up the space in a gentle and charming way.

Carlos Acosta

We worked in  collaboration with  Carlos Acosta to create his most ambitious show to date: Carlos Acosta Premieres that took place at the London Coliseum. We aimed to bring the audience nearer to the dancer with a film shot at 800 frames per second.