These Shoes are Made for Painting (2013)

Alex Murray-Leslie, Australia
(with Max Kibardin, Anat Ben David and Sam Ferguson)

Description

An investigation into the concept of “the Simultaneous”, as introduced by Sonia Delauny and her concept of Simultaneous Fashion in 1921.

“These Shoes are made for Painting” is a multidisciplinary collision of genres, live on stage, in the form of a 10-minute pop performance piece using ready made objects and the mapping of sound to coloured paint in action.

Paint, Choreography, fashion, music and art, blur in meaningful real-time interactions. Realized through the gesture of physical painting, which is mapped onto various parameters, the piece culminates to create a new form of body-centric musical instrument performance prototype.

The gestures of painting are transposed into sound, through colourful compositions, which build into a crescendo of alternating duration and intensity, painting an overall audio visual composition.

Medium

Pop performance

Image credits

© Alexandra Murray-Leslie