SwanQuake is a unique project involving the ongoing making of an interactive artwork comprising 3-D computer graphic environments and motion-capture driven characters created from a variety of materials and methods by igloo.

SwanQuake: House
V22 Ashwin Street 21 Sept - 3 Nov 2008

V22 is pleased to present SwanQuake:House. Through re-purposing media tools and combining them with re-modeled household objects, House simulates and reconfigures representations of an east-end underworld. Gibson and Martelli take over the basement project space to create a site-responsive work which taps into a sensorial flux where the real and virtual co-exist.

SwanQuake is a unique project involving the ongoing making of an interactive artwork comprising 3-D computer graphic environments and motion-capture driven characters created from a variety of materials and methods by an interdisciplinary team gathered together and led by igloo.

In each of the pieces, using a game controller, the viewer navigates freely throughout the 3D computer graphic environments.

The spaces are comprised of both exterior and interior landscapes, each thematically, visually & sonically distinct where users can interact with avatars to create new performances / performance spaces.

SwanQuake: the user manual opens the SwanQuake project up to discursive reflection and expansion through its selection of articles and essays.

SwanQuake is a surreal semi-abstract inhabited world, home to a series of potential encounters. These may be theatrical and dreamlike, sometimes uncanny perhaps even frightening, at times quotidian and familiar. It's these interactions that inspire curiosity, wonder and the desire to continue looking and sensing. However, despite the title 'mashup' of computer game Quake and traditional ballet Swan Lake, there are no targets, health points, wins or dying swans here......

V22 ASHWIN STREET
Basement Project Space
10-16 Ashwin Street
London
E8 3DL
Opening hours: Thursdays & Sundays 12 - 6pm
or by appointment +44 (0)20 7613 4996 eskimos@swanquake.com

http://www.swanquake.com