Isadora inspiration

Van Gogh Immersive experience

I currently work with Immersive Hub at the Van Gogh experience, Leicester so I am often surrounded by projection mapping. The companies main attraction maps a 35 minute long video projection on the walls of All Saints Church, fitting the video to the arches and beams of the building, as it displays a collection of Goghs moving paintings. This is truly a spectacle to watch, yet somehow creates an almost zen-like state, seeming hypnotic as it plays. I would love to recreate this feeling in my own prototype, letting the audience walk through the Alice in wonderland themed building, with each scene mapped to fit a different wall or section of a building.

There is also a smaller exhibit within the instillation called 'The Vases', which takes the audience through the variety of flower paintings the artist did, including the famous sunflowers and irises. The main element for me is the vase itself, which stays constant throughout, only changing colour, and letting the flowers change around it to display the contrast between each painting. The vase has been added to the wall in 3D, while the rest of the projection remains flat.

We could play with this idea and substitute the vase for a house for our own project, and have Alice growing and shrinking inside it, poking her arms and  legs out like she does in the film. This would accentuate her growing while everything else stays the same.

The Icebook- Studio McGuire

I had the pleasure of seeing this performance live on 16th June 2019 at Liverpool's Riverside festival.
This animated pop up book uses projection mapping on a small scale, and demonstrate how there is no need for huge spectacles; the tiny display in itself was breath taking to witness in person.
They mapped tiny, intricate shapes in this piece, which gave me the courage to attempt to map other small intricate things such as the rabbit.
This also demonstrated the lack of necessity for dialogue for a piece to be understood, making my group confident in demonstrating the context of Alice in wonderland with no speech.