the eye doesn't know pursues the inside aspect of an ongoing performance and elaborates on what seems to be hidden and covered from the audience, from the curious eye of the spectator. the project is designed as a video installation and comprises of two monitors and a number of wireless headphones. the first monitor displays a dancer performing a solo. the video is not based on regular video sequences but on photo stills that are taken and edited according to real-time in a video like format. the other monitor displays the same dancer in a neutral space, performing the same choreography in a purely mental state. the dancer is recorded on dv in a close-up and fix frame (one-single-shot in real-time).

the overall theme for the dance solo is the passing and alteration of time. based on the idea of breath and the beating of the heart, simple and repetitive sound structures are generated and broadcasted, wireless headphones are tuned in to pick up the signal. the idea is to give space for elaboration, for having the body interfere with time and define its own position and mode of change. that what the eye doesn't know, it sees (taken from rivka rinn).

all visual and acoustic layers are fully connected and run simultaneously. two monitors, a broadcast station and headphones define one unit. the application runs in loops. a first test shoot was carried out and recorded in june 2007 at zaim studios, yokohama. a video clip will be online in summer 2008.

concept, photography laurent ziegler
dancers corrie befort, yuki enomoto
camera corrie befort
sound takahiro kawaguchi
postproduction laurent ziegler, corrie befort