Video: Bodies in urban space
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The collaboration of two talented personalities - art director Willi Dorner and photographer Lisa Rastl - has become an interesting project “Bodies in Urban Space”. Street performance in Vienna brought together the best dancers, acrobats, climbers, who took part in an amazing sculptural show.
Twenty sculptural formations of living people appeared in Vienna in different places within an hour. In hoods or hats pulled over their heads, in bright clothes that attract attention, dancers and athletes squeezed themselves into different streets and alleys, telephone booths and doorways. The “Bodies in Urban Space” project encouraged casual passers-by, tourists and city residents to once again take a closer look at the area where they pass and where they live. These human sculptures are temporary, they will disappear as quickly as they appeared, but they will remain in the memory of the “witnesses”.
The Bodies in Urban Space project explored the relationship between bodies, space and architecture. Artist Willie Dorner transformed the human body into form, which is the opposite of classical traditional art, where human sculptures were created from material, but on the contrary, people serve as material, forming random sculptural installations.
During the tour in Austria, England, France, Norway, Sweden, Finland and the United States, Willie Dorner and his team often attracted the attention of local police, who disrupted several performances for fear that the participants were thieves or vandals.
Willie Dorner was born in Baden, Austria in 1959 and studied dance, dance pedagogy and dance therapy. In addition to the usual performances on stage, choreographer Willie Dorner also organizes various events of an international scale, which allow the audience to perceive and experience everyday events in a new way.
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