An interactive sound and light installation with body and skin from public
"Contacts" or "Lights Contacts" is an interactive artwork perceptible by two people or more. This sensory installation is tactile and sonorous. It proposes an original and interactive staging among spectators’ bodies. They are transformed into real sonorous human instruments. In a poetic way, we invite the spectator to question the perception of the other one.
This artwork is composed by a small interactive shiny ball. A first person is invited to put his hand on the shiny ball. In contact with this object, his body gets sensitive and reactive to other living bodies. If the person remains alone, nothing happens, there is no reaction. He must invite another person to touch him. They must touch each other’s skin. For example, they can shake hands, caress or kiss each other. Each touch generates variable sounds. The various sonorous vibrations change with the proximity of contacts and spectators.
When it’s possible we present the installation with a structure for lights. In fact, Contacts can also be connected to spots lights RVB inside a specific structure or integrate in the exhibition space. Then each contacts between the people can also interact with the color and the intensivity of the lights. When we use lights the name of this artwok become «Lights contacts»
With the artwork idea of «Lights contacts» we want to design each presentation and light scenography according to the specificity and the size of the exhibition space.
Contacts implicates spectators, and provokes intimate or funny situations. Couples kiss or make sonorous caress to each other, or unknown people touch their hands timidly, or many people play together... Many kind of reactions are possible. According to cultural areas, the contact with other people is different.
In this artwork, the energetic clouds of bodies (electrostatic energy) are musically felt. We propose a sensory experience with the other person’s body in order to animate what we cannot detect. In this situation, energetic contacts with other human bodies become sonorous. We want to provoke, to overturn degrees of proximity that we use in our relationships with known or unknown people.
