Interactive art project realized in 2011 at Noorderzon festival.
Interactive artist/computer wizard / multi-instrumentalist Jan Klug and I were invited to collaborate on a project for Pavlov E-lab. Pavlov E-lab is a small nomadic lab with a focus on Art/Science collaborations. Different teams of artists and scientists brainstorm and work together around intriguing themes and present their results(mainly) in public space. Jan and I worked with historian Mineke Bosch and genetic biologist Jean-Christophe Billeter on a project themed ‘lines of belonging’.
Based on meetings with Bosch and Billeter, we built an interactive environment in a living room. Our audience was seated around a dinner table on which we projected stories, infographics, and films. They were asked to participate by reciting the short scripts we projected on their plates to each other. These scripts featured small stories on family life, including its frictions. We played out dialogues by Bosch and Billeter over old family movies into which we had keyed our visitors.
Even though the installation could welcome only 8 visitors per sitting, over 260 people have joined us in only 4 evenings as each performances was sold out.
‘Family Features’ part of a larger project titled ‘Lines of Belonging’, which featured a total of three art/science crossovers plus a movie about the process. ‘Lines of Belonging’ was presented inside various living rooms in Groningen as part of Noorderzon 2011. A trailer of the video about ‘Lines of Beloning’ and ‘Family Features’ is here.
