Earth Beneath Our Feet Interactive Arts Festival November 5th
Free Event
A Spiralling Sight Production
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Earth Beneath Our Feet is an inter-active arts festival involving collaborations across many different art mediums, from visual arts (interactive film), music, theatre, to body art and cultural and environmental awareness. The festival is based around the community participation in the interactive experiences provided. It is a free interactive experience that will connect all social diversities and minds allowing them to develop and grow through hands on creation.
It will be run on Saturday November 5th at Carclew Youth Arts Center from 12-10pm. |
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Earth Beneath Our Feet is a celebration of filmmaker Nic Nic Ansell's masterpiece of cinematography documenting our country and our planet. The film has been a year and a half in the making. Earth Beneath Our feet shall be shown through several projectors on various surfaces throughout the festival. One will be rigged in a tree above a sand pit that will form a living sand screen. There will also be a screen rigged across the middle of a geo-dome with a rear projection of the movie looping throughout the day.
Earth Beneath Our Feet is the fourth film of a five part interactive series. This interactive film series is revolutionising the process in which films are being created by using real time footage of a theme screened to an audience who will create the script/dialogue.
The Living Sand Screen allows interactive manipulation of the screen which will change the projected image. During the day part of this event the Sand Screen will be open for anyone to play in. At night the interactive film will be projected onto the Sand Screen, giving it a new form created by the audience interaction.
After watching the images on the main screen, audience members are given the opportunity to enter a recording booth and speak their thoughts/feelings/emotions as provoked by the image. This voice recording will be connected with the image then seen and heard on the main screen roughly 10 minutes after it is recorded. Seeing the film complete with the audience participation on the main screen interconnects the understanding of the concepts in making interactive film on a subjective and visceral level.
This event is, as far as we know, a totally original experience in Australia and to draw comparisons to other work is not feasible.
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Painting Area
The Painting Area is another interactive space giving the community an opportunity to create a mural of connectivity. Using traditional earth-based paints to experience the feel, smell and touch of living earth that will simulate an awareness of GAIA. Participants are given the opportunity to place a hand print on a giant canvas screen. Being able to paint on a screen projection will impact on where the participants choose to place their handprints as the canvas is not blank. This original concept will be experimented for the first known time at this event. This event will be attractive to families and it will have free henna/tribal/body painting available in this area for kids.
Stall Area
Working with Adelaide’s local businesses the stall area will draw in a larger audience. Thus providing the opportunity to support and be supported by small local businesses. Continuing with the theme of the event one of the stalls will be a plant swap. This will provide the community with an opportunity to bring along a plant and take home a different one. This will promote a swapping of ideas and knowledge and further an awareness of our native ecosystem and water smart gardening.
Confirmed Stall Holders are ;
Music Stage
Sound and music make a huge impact on a film. The co-creating of different live art mediums at the one event will emphasize and influence the audiences involvement in the interactive experience. Our Band Stage will be complete with a fully controlled creative lighting rig thanks to Astral Lotus
The band line up ;
12.30 - 1.15 The Search Party
1.30 - 2.15 Techno Prisoners
2.30 - 3.15 Menagerie
3.30 - 4.15 Shipwrecked in the Desert
4.30 - 5.15 Wizards From Space
(45 mins to keep up our sleeves inserted here)
6.00 - 6.45 Drumming Circle
7.00 - 8.00 DJ Zeropoint (Darren is wanting to create an audio/visual show based on environmental awareness and expanding consioussness)
8.10 - 9.00 DJ DKMN
9.10 - 9.50 Kendall Francis (Play the night out with audio/visual show)
Performers
Throughout the event Adelaide Xtra’s will be performing live experimental pieces to entertain the audience adding another stimulus connecting with the theme. Adelaide Xtra’s is a independent group of performers, all members have completed basic, intermediate and advanced certified levels of performance and have had extensive experience within the industry.
Fire Area
The fire area will be run by local Adelaide company ‘Razed in Flames’ providing entertainment and information during the event. Razed in Flames offers diverse and unique performances ranging from a fire artist, belly dancers and martial artists through to 4 person choreographed performances. Razed in Flames is an Adelaide based fire performance group with over 30 years combined experience in the art of fire manipulation. They will also be providing information to the community about fire awareness and safety.
GAIA Bar
Collaborating with Live On Light Square there will be a relaxed bar space under a marquee fenced off from the rest of the event. We have sought sponsorship from local Adelaide wineries and breweries.
Earth Beneath Our Feet is the fourth film of a five part interactive series. This interactive film series is revolutionising the process in which films are being created by using real time footage of a theme screened to an audience who will create the script/dialogue.
The Living Sand Screen allows interactive manipulation of the screen which will change the projected image. During the day part of this event the Sand Screen will be open for anyone to play in. At night the interactive film will be projected onto the Sand Screen, giving it a new form created by the audience interaction.
After watching the images on the main screen, audience members are given the opportunity to enter a recording booth and speak their thoughts/feelings/emotions as provoked by the image. This voice recording will be connected with the image then seen and heard on the main screen roughly 10 minutes after it is recorded. Seeing the film complete with the audience participation on the main screen interconnects the understanding of the concepts in making interactive film on a subjective and visceral level.
This event is, as far as we know, a totally original experience in Australia and to draw comparisons to other work is not feasible.
More Info
Painting Area
The Painting Area is another interactive space giving the community an opportunity to create a mural of connectivity. Using traditional earth-based paints to experience the feel, smell and touch of living earth that will simulate an awareness of GAIA. Participants are given the opportunity to place a hand print on a giant canvas screen. Being able to paint on a screen projection will impact on where the participants choose to place their handprints as the canvas is not blank. This original concept will be experimented for the first known time at this event. This event will be attractive to families and it will have free henna/tribal/body painting available in this area for kids.
Stall Area
Working with Adelaide’s local businesses the stall area will draw in a larger audience. Thus providing the opportunity to support and be supported by small local businesses. Continuing with the theme of the event one of the stalls will be a plant swap. This will provide the community with an opportunity to bring along a plant and take home a different one. This will promote a swapping of ideas and knowledge and further an awareness of our native ecosystem and water smart gardening.
Confirmed Stall Holders are ;
- Just Juggling Around - Offering circus & juggling paraphernalia and running workshops to teach the skills involved with juggling & using devil sticks
- Evenflow Health - Offering Massage by donation www.evenflowhealth.com.au
- Arts Stall with exhibits & prints from numerous South Australian artists
- Violet Flame Henna - Providing mandalas of liquid love in the form of temporary Henna tattoos
- Various stalls from Local businesses providing unique & handcrafted goods from jewelery & crystals to leatherwork
Music Stage
Sound and music make a huge impact on a film. The co-creating of different live art mediums at the one event will emphasize and influence the audiences involvement in the interactive experience. Our Band Stage will be complete with a fully controlled creative lighting rig thanks to Astral Lotus
The band line up ;
12.30 - 1.15 The Search Party
1.30 - 2.15 Techno Prisoners
2.30 - 3.15 Menagerie
3.30 - 4.15 Shipwrecked in the Desert
4.30 - 5.15 Wizards From Space
(45 mins to keep up our sleeves inserted here)
6.00 - 6.45 Drumming Circle
7.00 - 8.00 DJ Zeropoint (Darren is wanting to create an audio/visual show based on environmental awareness and expanding consioussness)
8.10 - 9.00 DJ DKMN
9.10 - 9.50 Kendall Francis (Play the night out with audio/visual show)
Performers
Throughout the event Adelaide Xtra’s will be performing live experimental pieces to entertain the audience adding another stimulus connecting with the theme. Adelaide Xtra’s is a independent group of performers, all members have completed basic, intermediate and advanced certified levels of performance and have had extensive experience within the industry.
Fire Area
The fire area will be run by local Adelaide company ‘Razed in Flames’ providing entertainment and information during the event. Razed in Flames offers diverse and unique performances ranging from a fire artist, belly dancers and martial artists through to 4 person choreographed performances. Razed in Flames is an Adelaide based fire performance group with over 30 years combined experience in the art of fire manipulation. They will also be providing information to the community about fire awareness and safety.
GAIA Bar
Collaborating with Live On Light Square there will be a relaxed bar space under a marquee fenced off from the rest of the event. We have sought sponsorship from local Adelaide wineries and breweries.
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Following the completion of the event, the interactive film will be
available for the participants and community to purchase from spirallingsight.com. This DVD will be authored including information about the shooting of Earth Beneath Our Feet, photography and filming done at the event and the film complete with all participants’ interaction. This gives the participants the opportunity to own a film they helped create. Wide community attendance will be a strong indicator of the success of the event. Met sales targets of DVDs and merchandise, and subsequent band success will be other indicators of the outcomes of this event. Earth Beneath Our Feet will be followed by Light which is the final film in the 5 part digital interactive film series. Light will be shot in 2012 using organic film from around the world. Once the series is complete it will promoted to art and film festivals, media, internet, communities and producing companies to help the concept of digital interactive film become widely known. |
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