EMOTIVE LAND
Lonnie Stanton
Emotive Land is an Augmented Reality dance installation accessible via a free smartphone app. This site specific performance project allows audience members/users to watch dances on their smartphones at sites along the Charles River. The arrangement of short dance vignettes center nature's resilience, and encourage all to consider a relationship to land, rooted in stewardship versus hierarchical ownership.
Created as a site responsive installation captured on film and translated through technology, this project invites harmony between nature, society and innovation. As people walk the Charles with whatever perceptions and feelings they have at that moment, moments of movement displayed through our interactive augmented reality app will interrupt their internal dialogue and bring them to an alternate vision of what they normally see. Through this interruption, they can perceive the dynamic dance that constantly exists between themselves and their environment.
The physical constraints of our public spaces shape the art of human expression and growth in a similar relationship as the habitat of Nature’s organisms shapes Nature’s art. Therefore, the stairwell, hallway or bench are the constraints that enable the art of that space to manifest. The passerby of site-specific work exhibits an intriguing autonomy. Audience members are free to come and go at any time, making their attention, however brief, the most profound acceptance of art itself.
Choreographer/curator Lonnie Stanton hopes to place human expression outside in a way that has no hierarchy: the tree and the squirrel are of no less value than the human in process. How do we frame and highlight the plants and wild animals that are left in cities? How do we not assume authority over nature, especially in an urban landscape?
Created as a site responsive installation captured on film and translated through technology, this project invites harmony between nature, society and innovation. As people walk the Charles with whatever perceptions and feelings they have at that moment, moments of movement displayed through our interactive augmented reality app will interrupt their internal dialogue and bring them to an alternate vision of what they normally see. Through this interruption, they can perceive the dynamic dance that constantly exists between themselves and their environment.
The physical constraints of our public spaces shape the art of human expression and growth in a similar relationship as the habitat of Nature’s organisms shapes Nature’s art. Therefore, the stairwell, hallway or bench are the constraints that enable the art of that space to manifest. The passerby of site-specific work exhibits an intriguing autonomy. Audience members are free to come and go at any time, making their attention, however brief, the most profound acceptance of art itself.
Choreographer/curator Lonnie Stanton hopes to place human expression outside in a way that has no hierarchy: the tree and the squirrel are of no less value than the human in process. How do we frame and highlight the plants and wild animals that are left in cities? How do we not assume authority over nature, especially in an urban landscape?
Experience Emotive Land
Emotive Land will launch on October 1, 2022, running through November 30, 2022. The installation will be available via a free app to anyone with a smartphone/mobile device. Join us for a LIVE celebration of the app launch on October 1 at 1pm. We are proceeding with our Saturday launch event despite expected light rain showers. We will meet along the boardwalk opposite the Paddle Boston kayak launch at 15 Broad Canal Way in Cambridge, MA for a live tour performance through the Canal district. Dress comfortably and note that the total walking distance is approximately 0.7mi. The route is fully accessible, and bathrooms are available for use at the Owl's Nest Beer Garden located at 300 Athenaeum Street. We recommend downloading the app prior to arrival.
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The Emotive Land app is free for download on Apple and Android devices. It is recommended to use an iPhone for the best user experience in this first iteration of the project. ANDROID USERS: to download the app, you will need to search Settings for "Install Unknown Apps" and enable Google Chrome.
If you enjoy Emotive Land and have the financial means to support the project, we are accepting donations of any amount via Eventbrite. Please note donations are not tax deductible at this time. More information can be found via the button above.
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In The Press
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Funding Acknowledgements
Emotive Land is made possible in part by grants and residencies received from: Boston Moving Arts Productions, The Dance Complex BLOOM Residency Program, a Somerville Arts Council ArtAssembled Residency Fellowship, the New England Foundation for the Arts’ New England Dance Fund, with generous support from the Aliad Fund at the Boston Foundation, and the Live Arts Boston grant from the Boston Foundation. Additional resources and support provided to The Click by BioMed Realty and MIT Open Space Programming.
Emotive Land is OPEN FOR VIEWING October 1 - November 30, 2022.
The project was developed with dancers Angelina Benitez, Rachel Linsky, Alexandria Nunweiler, and Kristin Wagner.
Additional collaborators include: James Peerless (tech), Olivia Blaisdell and Lindsay Caddle LaPointe (film), and Nate Tucker (music).
Photo by Olivia Moon Photography/@halfasianlens.
The project was developed with dancers Angelina Benitez, Rachel Linsky, Alexandria Nunweiler, and Kristin Wagner.
Additional collaborators include: James Peerless (tech), Olivia Blaisdell and Lindsay Caddle LaPointe (film), and Nate Tucker (music).
Photo by Olivia Moon Photography/@halfasianlens.