All She Likes Is Popping Bubble Wrap
Ioanna Paraskevopoulou
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YouTube Premiere
Saturday 20 March
20:00–22:00 (Full program below)
Introduction
The title of the performance refers to the sound made by a seemingly pointless and dull activity: popping bubble wrap. And yet, this sound can be used as an effect in a zombie chase scene. Welcome to this playful sound and image experiment by Ioanna Paraskevopoulou.
Photo: Andreas Simopoulos
All she likes is popping bubble wrap | Ioanna Paraskevopoulou
The screen is split in two. One side shows a montage of archival film images: three girls fishing at a lake, a zombie chase scene, a woman in the bath. The other side shows Ioanna Paraskevopoulou in dialog with the images: using various material resources and/or her own body to devise, create, and produce a new soundtrack to accompany them, thus orchestrating the images aurally and bringing them to life.
Because “All She Likes Is Popping Bubble Wrap” is a sound and image performance, a diptych of parallel actions: a screen divided into two in order to amplify the sound and visual impressions made by selected extracts of archival film footage.
Seeking to create a kind of audio-visual choreography composed of micro-movements and objects, the artist explores the correlations between sound, image, and the body, as well as the potential to exchange information across two moving images screened in parallel. This process leads to a playful experiment: a designated dramaturgical act on the part of the performer enters into discourse with the archival material to nurture non-synchronous realities, pushing them into unique new perspectives and dimensions.
How do two parallel activities affect the viewing process? How can the different temporalities of two images lead to multiple performative correlations and/or abstractions? What correspondence discovery mechanisms are activated in attempts to formulate a virtual fake entity?
We’ve seen Ioanna Paraskevopoulou perform as a dancer at Onassis Stegi numerous times, most recently in Tzeni Argyriou’s “ΑΝΩΝΥΜΟ” and Christos Papadopoulos’ “Ion” (both in 2018). But this is the first time we’re seeing her work as a choreographer, and also as a researcher at the Ionian University’s Audiovisual Arts Department, where she’s currently a student. Because “All She Likes Is Popping Bubble Wrap” centers on the core themes of her research: the moving image and interactive media.
“All She Likes Is Popping Bubble Wrap” is inspired by the Foley film sound technique, where – during post-production – recordings of objects, materials, natural phenomena, and human-produced sounds (field recordings) are used to supplement the existing soundscape, images, and overall action of a film scene. Ioanna Paraskevopoulou focuses on the notion of the archive, studying its potential as a choreographic tool, and wondering how its re-use within a new framework expands the boundaries of its interpretation and alters its dynamics.
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